Friday, March 9, 2012

Attempt #2

"So, you might as well get abck to the internally presented two-player conversation."
"Yeah i guess i can, read a piece just now presenting imaginary letters. Or, that is, the letters weren`t imaginary, but the beings behind them were. It was quite the hightailing romp through literature and the natural history museum."

"But it bored you enough not to read it all..."
"Of course, i can enjoy the life stories of writers, but its more difficult to enjoy imaginary conversations about literature. Though it must have been very gainful to write it. And apparently presumably fake, yet cherished, museum artifacts is some sort of literary trend, first my father and now this work ot The Orphan."

"Yeah, you do happen to like those similarities, don`t you?"
"Yes, it is quite the fascination of mine. Perception, reality. It is odd though, won`t you say. I started writing in the form of two imaginary conversating pieces of me yesterday. Today i discover the work of somebody published somewhere on the internet i`ve never heard of before, (though we have been observing some of the salme literary circles, albeit in different manners), which is also an example of the same literary style. Namely the shaping of, in my instance, imaginary conversations, and in his case, imaginary letters."

"But neither are imaginary, they`re quite real. They pertain more to the necessity of structural representation of an experience the writer wants to convey than to the reality of a conversation it purports to be when viewed as a stand alone piece."
"And that is the problem, is t, when it comes to that form of literature. Are you supposed to present it to an audience which is in on the con of it being forged letters, or do you present them without making the con obvious?"
"Well, if it is published as literature then you have little choice in the matter..."
"I think you are using the term literature wrong now...."
"So was i worrying. The point being, a particular form of conscious relation to a work of literature is lost when it is presented as a work of literature."
"What else can it be represented as?"
"As an authentic exchange of letters, not an imagined one at the part of the author."
"That authentic exchange would also be literature, which after all means the art of written work...."
"You just read some more about it and discovered that you were more unsure than you previously thought, didn`t you?"

"Yes indeed, suffice to say there are some glaring holes in my knowledge of the exact meaning of terms."
"Join the crowd."
"But then, there`s the textbook definition and then there is the probability of any one person adhering to the textbook definition."
"Nice rowing you`re doing there!"
"Yeah, it`s passable. But the point that was to be made here. Can we go back to probabilities and parallels, those fascinate me more."
"Yet you know next to nothing factual about them and spend all your time wallowing in your experiential relation to these phenomena. Which, on the whole, and to your credit, hasn`t been developed as shoddily as one might think. But that`s besides the point. The pont here is that to get probabilities and parallels to make sense you need to fuse your current experiential understanding with a rigorous mechanical one."
"And what do i do when the mechanical explanation fails to present a coherent understanding of the present and potential capacities of physical reality? It tends to leave me, somewhat disamused by the entire process."
"Then you grow up and work with what you have."
"Point, what do i have then?"
"A very vague, and ever shifting, assessment of what constitutes the aspects of probabilities and parallels which i find intriguing. And a slight difficulty of finding an overlapping exposition of the nature of the phenomena with which i am fascinated."
"You really don`t use language a lot in day to day settings, do you?"
"Well, at least this conversation has gaused me to get Strogatz` Sync off the shelf again. It`s been a while."
"Oh god, you`re probably going to overwhelm me with silly nuggets relating to what you find fascinating in that book now, aren`t you. Well, i can`t help but say that i fancy the idea."
"Yeah, me and the big ideas and understandings of the natural world stumble ever forward. I should at least try."

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