January 2008

‘Relief’ and ‘Release’

‘Relief’ and ‘Release’ are two different realities altogether. ‘Relief’ is the quelling of tension, its dissipation. ‘Release’ is sending tension somewhere, and possesses the potential of directing it. Ie., releasing an arrow. Which reminds me of a poem I wrote a very while back, ‘enantiodromia‘. “In tension, creation, In tension, creation…”

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Affliction vs Addiction

Here is the foundation of addiction – that it has no foundation, that it is rupture, co-rupture, corruption. You get into an addiction, a habit, because it balances something. There is a kind of existence that feels ‘centred’, and something about you, or your existence, an affliction, is pulling you off that centre, and the

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