Saturday, July 11, 2009

external self-contained context

at this point or perhaps at an imminent one -- the exactness of the moment defies its nature -- this blog will reach the tipping point at which it will either tend toward infinity or toward zero. somewhere, i'm sure, there is a blog full of statistics showing that blogs are exemplary of the sort of projects started but never finished. this blog has at least finished already, with its singular initial post. everything unfinished is complete in its own right. a shift in temporal context of 5 or 5,000 years transforms a shard of pottery into evidence of a civilization or disregarded manuscripts into a body of literature and study. context exists only as change. no being incapable of perfectly recreating its own past mental states has any hope of assuming the same context on its work at all times. humans are hopeless at this. these shifts in context accrue and aggregate, gaining and losing relevance with no correslation to the hard and fast variables of linear time and space.

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