Lyric culture is based on a lyrical approach to Truth, Beauty, the Good, and Wisdom
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Attempting to disclose disclosure I am looking for us to have an accident together Words are the vehicles we use To drive us over the cliff To hit the concrete wall Crash! Driving us to wordlessness
Disclosure means waiting for an accident together Seeing for the first time, but When it’s there you can’t even point to it Because it’s not there at the same time. The finger, aimlessly tracing the night sky Trying to find the moon, but By some lovely accident It has breached the earth’s orbit Looking for a new cosmic accident
Silence is the great enemy of the people Words are no better Disclosure comes from a foreign place Where we used to look for gods Now there are only aliens And their jibberish.
Accidents are happening all around us All of the time The giant anteater is an accident His wooly arms and Pinoochio nose are accidents The way he walks on his knucles is an accident LOOK! The way she accidentally smiles!
Discloses something about our selves 200 million years before We were the ones there but not there At the same time
A lyrical approach involves a shift in reasoning, judgment, posture, gesture and perception; requires a shift in whole-part relations; and does not distinguish philosophy from art, literality from musicality, goodness from beauty.
Lyric culture promotes intimacy the way theoretic culture promotes literacy.
Lyric thought is a direct response to the fact that the particular capacity for language-use possessed by our species cuts us off from the world in a way, or to a degree, that is painful.
We experience the burden of our capacity for language as loss— though we rarely recognize that this is the burden, that what we have lost is silence.
Lyric art is the fullest expression of the hunger for wordlessness.
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