MDMD: Parallax- another sort of V.

[jporter]

> From: Terence <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>

> And on page 92
> 
> ""she is caught, dark, embodied, solid, against the face of
> the sun,-- a Goddess descended from light to Matter.""
> 

Yes, but that is only half the story.

"Half because a woman is only half of something there are usually two sides
to." (Interior Benny, p. 18, Perennial Library, ed. '86).

It's like the simultaneous reification of spirit and deification of matter,
yet more than either. "V-ness" as a state of being, including both the
observed and the observer, irreducible.

Here's another example:

"...a vanishingly small instant in which change had to be confronted at last
for what it was, where it could no longer disguise itself as something
innocuous like an average rate; where velocity dwelled in the projectile
though the projectile be frozen in midflight, where death dwelled in the
cell though the cell be looked on at its most quick."  Oed with the sailor,
Lot49.

So the "meta-parallax," includes not just the angle between two obs, but the
center where they come together, as well.

jody

                Dull sublunary lovers' love
                    (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit
                Absence, because it does remove
                    Those things which elemented it.

[A Valediction: forbidding mourning, J. Donne]