>It is a classic problem in language philosophy; the question “How do I love thee?” (let me count the ways). You count and count, but no one particular expression is satisfactory; it cannot be fully expressed in language. My desire is to express the ultimate particularity, ultimate uniqueness: I love her, because she is the perfectly unique woman that I love.
i spent literally the last two weeks trying to write a letter to my girlfriend, to put with a gift i was mailing her. i rewrote about 15 times, no shit, and threw it in the trash each time. each one i kept trying to get at why i love her, be poetic, and so on, but of course i could never reach it - that which i desired, the perfect particular, could not be expressed in general terms.
what i ended up writing was very simple. i told her she was beautiful and that i loved her and that i wanted to see her again soon. because, i realized - she already knows exactly what i mean. it is only *after the fact* that the experience (in this case, of love) becomes unreal, impossible to articulate - because the particular is already perfectly known, in the moment it occurs, in its immediacy. words cant point at particulars. wittgenstein says this somewhere i think
when i wrote it out like that, when i used the general terms to express the thing *already known*: my anxiety about the whole thing went away. the words were there not to express anything new, but to point to something that already was, and, poof, the problem was gone.
anyway, sorry to shit up your comments again. I have to write these things out so that i can get the problem out of my head, its the same deal. then the anxiety goes away, and i can continue on
Great work, this is really good. A post-modern turn into a feminized world (world as reinterpreted to be female) might be why online communication and media feels so passive-aggressive. Perhaps not the best term to use, maybe it just feels female. The internet is female, after all. I considered watching this movie because the premise seems interesting, but I've been scorned by horror/thriller movies written and directed by women before (namely You Were Never Really Here). Great writing as always.
perhaps in your culture people do not hug/kiss/lift one another up and swing them around whilst making aeroplane noises, but i want you to know that the extralinguistic is a very nice category.
it is refreshingly psychosexually honest I unironically applaud Prano Bailey-Bond for this
Hard to put into words how brilliant this is
>It is a classic problem in language philosophy; the question “How do I love thee?” (let me count the ways). You count and count, but no one particular expression is satisfactory; it cannot be fully expressed in language. My desire is to express the ultimate particularity, ultimate uniqueness: I love her, because she is the perfectly unique woman that I love.
i spent literally the last two weeks trying to write a letter to my girlfriend, to put with a gift i was mailing her. i rewrote about 15 times, no shit, and threw it in the trash each time. each one i kept trying to get at why i love her, be poetic, and so on, but of course i could never reach it - that which i desired, the perfect particular, could not be expressed in general terms.
what i ended up writing was very simple. i told her she was beautiful and that i loved her and that i wanted to see her again soon. because, i realized - she already knows exactly what i mean. it is only *after the fact* that the experience (in this case, of love) becomes unreal, impossible to articulate - because the particular is already perfectly known, in the moment it occurs, in its immediacy. words cant point at particulars. wittgenstein says this somewhere i think
when i wrote it out like that, when i used the general terms to express the thing *already known*: my anxiety about the whole thing went away. the words were there not to express anything new, but to point to something that already was, and, poof, the problem was gone.
anyway, sorry to shit up your comments again. I have to write these things out so that i can get the problem out of my head, its the same deal. then the anxiety goes away, and i can continue on
Great work, this is really good. A post-modern turn into a feminized world (world as reinterpreted to be female) might be why online communication and media feels so passive-aggressive. Perhaps not the best term to use, maybe it just feels female. The internet is female, after all. I considered watching this movie because the premise seems interesting, but I've been scorned by horror/thriller movies written and directed by women before (namely You Were Never Really Here). Great writing as always.
perhaps in your culture people do not hug/kiss/lift one another up and swing them around whilst making aeroplane noises, but i want you to know that the extralinguistic is a very nice category.