Saturday, March 20, 2010

the most fascinating thing

1. death. that's pretty obvious but when you're making a list, you need to be complete or people just wonder why you left out whatever you left out.

In my most recent cogitation, it occurs to me that number one is so elusive as to make conjecture about it vaporous, pointless. But that's why this is the only list in the world in which the most important item is number two!

number two: that there are others with individuality, self-awareness and private intent, where "private" means that it is unique and exclusively attached to a given other. I am like them, but not exactly.

everything in human experience operates in this space, and the greatest interest to be gained is in being conscious of it.

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