Saturday, November 04, 2006

Silence and Monologue

silence is about the things people think and feel but do not say

silence can be read in the negative space rachel whiteread cast
under the staircase
the exterior of bookshelves
the interior of an entire
house

or the six good friends in the waves that the reader knows the intimacy of their innermost thoughts, desires and fears, throughout their lives, yet never knowing what they look like for the author has presented the reader, in beauiful prose, 6 interior monologues

what i refer to as what barthes refer to as death of the author

on what defines tangible
what defines not, the irreversibility
of signs

this is about your monologue and my silence

"J. An indian wedding in a chinese restaurant. A stranger sits beside me and she's already drunk."

something is always absent in everything present
when you are just getting on with your life
being with friends and family
and nothing to worry you
and you try to reach the person that has nothing to do with everything before your eyes
you know what that means
you recognize that you could be happier

and you know what that recgonition entails
in the course of our lives
we are bound to experience that recgonition
and we are bound to carry on with life pretending it's not a lie
until we believe our pretensions
and read what boundaries and desires look like wielded by winterson
like reading about it might offer some clues out of the maze

the price of that recgonition is resignation
you don't know what yearning is until you begin to yearn
henceforth, herve joncour said nothing
he became the silent observer of his life

continue the story
you are writing prose
it sounds like something i would have told you
don't ever give up on my silence
if you could see
this is what my silence looks like
- a monologue
mono locked
in silence

we make each other lonely
but


it might be lonelier without the loneliness

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