Poetry. The occasional silly diaryland update. Painfully self-conscious away messages.

Were I to get a tattoo tomorrow, I think it might read: �Anathematization of the world is not an adequate response to the world.�

It�s from Donald Barthelme�s Snow White and I had to look up the meaning of the world �anathematization� � it means �cursing.� The more complete meaning of the quotation, when taken in context, is less simply beautiful than the statement alone. The statement is sandwiched between an episode in which the futility of modern human imaginings of what �something better� than our current condition would even be is pointed out and an episode in which the blind acceptance of life as-is because �that�s the way it seems supposed to be� is ridiculed. Run ons!

Of course, no alternatives are proposed: we can�t imagine better, we can�t curse, and we can�t accept: so what are humans to do?

I feel even Mr. High Post Modern Barthelme may be suggesting we should create. That � oversimplification that it may be � is beautiful. We create new art that is not new but old art with new eyes that are not new but trying.

I think deconstruction is beautiful in its persistent acceptance of its ultimate futility. We can never escape the system in which we live � by attempting to unravel we rebuild. I experience Stockholm Syndrome in regards to my Prison House of Language � and it feels so good.

I live a lot of my life under erasure. Jargony erasure!

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