VII.
This isn't Lynx 'speaking' at you now, it is the
persona Lynx is wont to call 'the master',
and although Lynx has informed me of her writings, these ecrit-ures,
which I needs must
admit were suggested to her by this her guardian thinking it would
perhaps exercise her
skills and also, obviously, thinking that translation into the
inscribed might be more open
to her method of elucidation - I did go so far as to read some of the
archive material of
the public journal to which she now sends some of these traceworks,
and make some
cursory forays into the administrator's published ideological
credentials - up until this
point, I have not been shown the actual texts which comprise her
participation there.
However, recently I was asked to read a couple of the comments that
have been received
on these written musings, and I was asked for my comments in
turn.
As it has always been my policy to actually _be_
my brother's keeper, if biblical allusions are
not too far out of the realm of the fiction of philosophy, I do not
mind revealing to you that I
thought her usual mental wanderings, although largely unformed and
uninformed, might be
well served by the practice of writing them down, so that the
thoughts could come to be seen
as a mark of where the body had been; Lynx's body being everywhere
and nowhere at once,
a type of placement I supposed would be beneficial and contribute to
some type of personal
journey.
Also, and I admit to cunning here, I thought it
may inspire some reading which is always in
my opinion a route to more well rounded writing, if writing is what
one is going to do.
Furthermore, and this may be the worst thing I
have done to date with respect to these
procedures which I have seen fit to inflict on the creature, I am
writing my comments on
the comments directly to the journal, so that the only way Lynx may
know about my
thoughts on the whole matter is by reading them in that
context.
As for referencing Soseki's work, "I am a Cat", I
think perhaps the confusion lies in the use of
the word 'master' which Lynx sees as the most appropriate way to
characterize me on a daily
basis. While I think it is fair to say that the archetype most
prevalent in Lynx's nature is feline
to a large extent, I would not go so far as to say that this sums up
the persona completely. The
physical manifestations of a felinity may indeed be present, or may
be extensions of the body in
the form of an aura, call it what you will, my belief systems are
inadequate to place objective
criteria on these things with any certainty. All I know is that the
weight of reality is a personal
one, and dependent for awareness on having a materiality, and then
beyond that, on being aware
of oneself in relation to others. This is what I had hoped to
gain.
I am seen as master because Lynx is apt to do what
I say to do. Also, there is a dependency
relationship in operation here. However, it should be plain that I am
also in a dependent position.
If I say to do something, and the other does it for me, then my own
needs may be perhaps
fulfilled, even though from one point of view it may seem as if I am
making the other do
something. Between matters of succouring or controlling, there seems
to be a very fine line.
Or none at all. However, I do not force the compliance, and therefore
our relationship may
be seen more fruitfully in terms of a reciprocity or
complementarity.
As for her style of presentation, it can be read
as extremely naive, but do not let the words
fool you, or the way they are stitched together. This creature has
certain habits and means
of expression that revel in the surface, but I have discovered that
depite a seemingly fragmentary
approach to cognitive pursuits, a consistency of action is at the
same time attendant to her overall
behaviour: despite the revolutionary nature of her original becoming,
once located within this vale
of tears, she became just as much a part of the overall creatura as
any other ecospherical dependent,
and thus what is seemingly random at close quarters, when viewed from
outer space takes on the
order and apparent telos inherent in the stochasticism under which we
all labor.
And this does get back to my exhortations to read.
I have noticed that Lynx is rather talented at
imitation and mockery, and so I envisioned some kind of stylistic
'improvement' should the reading
of other writers take place. Of course, there may be still others who
do not see such a change as
improvement at all, but rather the replacement of one set of
phraseologies with another, with a
pretensive style on top of that which has naturally developed. But
whatever style, or formal features
are adopted by a writer, one is left with the question over the
relationship of such formal features
with that of what has been called content. I am personally inclined
to favour form AS content in many
cases, or at least the formal features as being primary, as
indicating a certain register or instruction to
read 'as' something, even if that is occasionally to read something
as 'not a normal text'. Although I
will not to enter the dark passageways of discussion on what is or
how one deems a text 'normal',
here, now, suffice perhaps to say that conventions are local and
learnt via experience. To know
conventions means to have participated in them, to have acted and
have been acted upon in return.
Unless, therefore, one has read widely within a content area one
wishes to address - in other words to
address the writers and readers of the same content area - then any
text one produces will in this sense
be 'normal' only by chance, and on the same dimension, perhaps
unreadable in entirety.
But then, this is because perhaps, I, myself, have
been used to putting the writer in this light, that of
'master' to the reader, seeing the text as instruction, as primarily
information about how to think, how
to read. Here, however, I have this creature at my seeming disposal
who yet will not read, and writes
in a style which is to all intents and purposes superficial, yet the
content, I dare say, may be more
instructive than the content of the writings of many others you here
reading now may come across.
I will make sure that I instruct Lynx to let me read more of the
writings so that I may more fully
explore these contradictions in myself.
Thank you for you attention.