<div dir="ltr">So, since a fever unconcentrates the mind wonderfully, I felt that only<div>fragments might enter my mind yesterday. </div><div><br></div><div>So, I had a copy of Heraclitus' Fragments, he of the famous impossible two-step in the river fragment, and opened it. Penguin Classics edition 2001. Guess who did the introduction?</div><div><br></div><div>Pynchon's "shrink" [No, I don't mean this literally but it might be the case, we sometimes think?]</div><div>James Hillman. </div><div><br></div><div>Hillman sez, since archetypal modes of thought transcend time and place, Heraclitus is 'strikingly postmodern"!</div><div><br></div><div>Well, since P contains 'everything' it shouldn't surprise me that there are thematic </div><div>fragments of P in Heraclitus as Hillman reads him. Seems he was the first to think sleep </div><div>taught us: "dreaming is the flickering activity of the mind participating in the world's imagination."</div><div>That Hillman, no wonder P likes him. </div><div><br></div><div>The fire is Heraclitus' metaphor for the constant flow, flux, and eternal change of the world as we know it. "usual thinkers try to grasp the flow by..... overprecise and reductive explanations" "Whereas the thinker [the true prophet] who is on track speaks in signs, much like gestures, hints and metaphors that neither reveal nor conceal. These signs allow for many meanings with ambiguous and suggestive possibilities".</div><div><br></div><div>Sound like any other great narrative writer(s) you know? </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>