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Phenomena / Noumena rating=2

October 14, 2007
File under: Cogito Ergo

Through a murky fog I can almost make out the shape of two worlds where I'd thought there was a single one.

The first, the clearer, more concrete of the two, is verdant with gratifying things: simple good things like good coffee, good music, good conversation with good people. Life in this world is easy, as if there's little gravity. This is the world we see and hear, the world we live in.

The second, concurrent world is harder to make out through the haze, heavier, full of things that are impossibly hard to hold—unattainable things—happiness, contentment, love. This is the world we know but can't see, the world where longing lives. 1

The two worlds seem almost to overlap, but in fact never touch; and no quantity of the simple things can add up to even a single one of the unattainable ones. We collect our things, but in the end it's as if we have nothing at all...

Rain on bamboo

(How antimonious.)

1. Kant would probably not have considered "love" in his proof of transcendental idealism -- but shouldn't he have? This is knowledge we have, a priori, more than any morality or mathematics: "How do you know if you're in love?" "You just know." Etc.

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