This is a very inspiring book; my favorite fragment is:
"Life must be gathered together if it is to be placed within the intention of genuine life. If my life cannot be grasped as a singular totality, I could never hope it to be successful, complete. Now there is nothing in real life that serves as a narrative beginning; memory is lost in the hazes of early childhood; my birth and, with greater reason, the act through which I was conceived belong more to the history of others — /tbc./
/part two, cont./ — in this case, to my parents — than to me. As for my death, it will finally be recounted only in the stories of those who survive me. I am always moving toward my death, and this prevents me from ever grasping it as a narrative end."
Thanks Corey, I like the idea that being able to be "counted on" in a sense 'precipitates' a constant selfness into a dialogic narrative space.
Do you think that maybe, arising from our REFLECTIVE consciousness, "I" can be the other in this plea? The other who needs my constancy can be ME. I need to state my self-constancy to myself as I am the greatest doubter of my validity, my reality. After all so much energy is expended in such an inner dialogue which is essentially self "precipitating".
This is a very inspiring book; my favorite fragment is:
"Life must be gathered together if it is to be placed within the intention of genuine life. If my life cannot be grasped as a singular totality, I could never hope it to be successful, complete. Now there is nothing in real life that serves as a narrative beginning; memory is lost in the hazes of early childhood; my birth and, with greater reason, the act through which I was conceived belong more to the history of others — /tbc./
pawsoned 1 week ago
/part two, cont./ — in this case, to my parents — than to me. As for my death, it will finally be recounted only in the stories of those who survive me. I am always moving toward my death, and this prevents me from ever grasping it as a narrative end."
pawsoned 1 week ago
thanks for sharing.
alovelytime 2 years ago
great to know theres a book written on this. thanks for providing more angles to perceive responsibility and accountability.
katerinabonvora 2 years ago
Thanks Corey, I like the idea that being able to be "counted on" in a sense 'precipitates' a constant selfness into a dialogic narrative space.
Do you think that maybe, arising from our REFLECTIVE consciousness, "I" can be the other in this plea? The other who needs my constancy can be ME. I need to state my self-constancy to myself as I am the greatest doubter of my validity, my reality. After all so much energy is expended in such an inner dialogue which is essentially self "precipitating".
soulfetcher 2 years ago