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Ineffability and the Ineffable The Party Line By Dennis D. Gagnon It appears that using words To convey an experience of that preceding words is futility at its best. Thus a poem, Being the quintessentially literate intercourse, is doomed to failure in transmission of the fundamental aesthetic. Though it is experienced In a most immediate and constant manner, One cannot describe the preexistent reality From which we all proceed. In coming before words, It is Non-Being. From…..
THE PARTY LINE By Dennis D. Gagnon In a later chapter of the book, a character referred to as “Sage” makes the comment when discussing human suffering that “most consciousnesses are practically filled to the brim with nothingnesses.” What does this mean, and how does it bear upon human suffering? Though I won’t go into the full details here, in the book Sage is making the point that most if not all of our objects of desire don’t really exist…..
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