Innocence, you got it?
Do you?
I think I used to, I'm sure I don't anymore.
A common dilemma, for the men of any age.
What about for the man for all seasons?
There are no such men.
This evening, Our Sightless Mother relayed to me this, as best I remember it:
WHEN READING OF KNOWING,
TO KNOW THAT YOU KNOW
NOTHINGIS TO KNOW ME, AND WHENREADING OF UNKNOWING,
TO KNOW THAT YOU KNOWALL THERE IS
IS TO KNOW MEAND ALL THAT YOU KNOW…
I forgot to update this but, indeed, it was a warning to be aware that even great minds can succumb to the Curse of Orqwith. A sad state of affairs to be certain but a necessary thing to internalize.
A witch is to perhaps suppose, that accounting for the allusions to George Berkley, and its own self-contained tale of coins which go missing, one should read this, in the direction I've been given, as an endorsement of sorts of the notion in-presen…
Hmmm, the postscript presents a puzzle.
While the Sightless Mother speaks to me, she does not do so at this precise moment. Thus, I am left to ponder my own interpretations.
The grim presentation of Tloen intruding upon and then destroying the "real…
The literature of this hemisphere (like
Meinong's subsistent world) abounds in ideal objects, which are
convoked and dissolved in a moment, according to poetic needs.
And what could this describe but sorcery?
The world for them is not a concourse of objects in
space; it is a heterogeneous series of independent acts. It is
successive and temporal, not spatial. There are no nouns in
TlOn's conjectural Ursprache, from which the "present" lan
guages and th…
The first, Lesbare und lesens
werthe Bemerkungen iiber das Land Ukkbar in Klein-Asien,
dates from 1641 and is the work of Johannes Valentinus Andrea.
This fact is significant; a few years later, I came upon that name
in the unsuspected pages of De Q…
Borges (and thus the Sightless Mother) present to us only one character of historical fact within the pages of the article on Uqbar within "Tloen Uqbar Orbis Tertius," that of the Persian king Tanyoxarces. A man who, through a series of convolutions…
I asked him the origin of this memorable
observation and he answered that it was reproduced in The
Anglo-American Cyclopaedia, in its article on Uqbar. The house
(which we had rented furnished) had a set of this work. On the
last pages of Volume XLV…
here is non-fiction, or fiction, as you choose to believe it.
My name is Dorothea Beatrice Hecati, I am a witch, and the foremost devotee of the Sightless Lock, whom I will now tell you of, as best I can. Please believe me, nothing I am about to sa…