Irony and delicious metaphor are words not having their raw equivalence in language, therefore these are upper crust modalities. To demand that words never change their meanings, that their meanings are always fixed and secure, is to demand a higher degree of safety than the world can offer you. Or rather. You can get that sense of safety, but it will come at the cost. That cost is you will be penned in, curtailed, held back, restrained behind your body of language. Stuck in the body and can't get out, the spirit cannot soar or even shout. But some demand that they should never be confused, that woman always means a woman means a woman and man always means a mean man, meaning means a man.
It has to mean the same as how they got stuck when they were six and there was gender in the classroom and the teacher kept things feeling normal so that everyone felt sane.
But some people stop time at different points than others. Take this one case, for instance. When I first migrated, I had no idea that most people had stopped time in 1979. So I'd gone living through that time until the start of 1984 and I'd experienced communism and Korean samp and all manner of things like desegregation, which wasn't really different from what else I had experienced until then, since everything I'd known had been quite novel.
But the people told me I had only know apartheid and that I'd been living in South Africa, so they stopped time and relocated me, and then forced me to deal with new dimensions of time I'd never encountered before. And they didn't even tell me they'd switched time, either. They just relocated it without asking me.
Because I suppose they thought a white means white means white, and everyone who tells them otherwise is tricking them. Eliminate nuance. But you eliminate historical reality as well. That's the way that works. For each of us is in a stream and if you stop time you will have to deal with that, deal with the confusion and the fall out and the anger and aggression that will come about from stopping time.
You've got to let it flow and life continue really. Even if we find ourselves in different streams.
You can't stop time to catch fish or to make them pay. Because you will catch yourself out and pay instead, believe me. I should know.
Your fish is not your fish is not a fish.
But elevated people speak ironically and metaphorically, which makes them hard to catch!
It has to mean the same as how they got stuck when they were six and there was gender in the classroom and the teacher kept things feeling normal so that everyone felt sane.
But some people stop time at different points than others. Take this one case, for instance. When I first migrated, I had no idea that most people had stopped time in 1979. So I'd gone living through that time until the start of 1984 and I'd experienced communism and Korean samp and all manner of things like desegregation, which wasn't really different from what else I had experienced until then, since everything I'd known had been quite novel.
But the people told me I had only know apartheid and that I'd been living in South Africa, so they stopped time and relocated me, and then forced me to deal with new dimensions of time I'd never encountered before. And they didn't even tell me they'd switched time, either. They just relocated it without asking me.
Because I suppose they thought a white means white means white, and everyone who tells them otherwise is tricking them. Eliminate nuance. But you eliminate historical reality as well. That's the way that works. For each of us is in a stream and if you stop time you will have to deal with that, deal with the confusion and the fall out and the anger and aggression that will come about from stopping time.
You've got to let it flow and life continue really. Even if we find ourselves in different streams.
You can't stop time to catch fish or to make them pay. Because you will catch yourself out and pay instead, believe me. I should know.
Your fish is not your fish is not a fish.
But elevated people speak ironically and metaphorically, which makes them hard to catch!
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