A Human Strategy #511: Ridiculous attempts to redeem what is lost to expression

511

I am sure and confident, until I open my mouth to speak.  This is the squeeze of our condition.  We must speak to express our deepest feeling, but the act of this expression requires the compromise of individual feelings into universally accepted symbols.  We are too big for the box of grammar and lose our tails when the box closes itself into a sentence.  “But humans have no tails!”  is the objection.  We remain silent, for with the loss of our tails we have also lost our proof, and every attempt to prove incites laughter. 

We must speak, but speaking is incomplete.  We feel our meaning, but speak in absurdities.  We are vessels that must pour out this something within but find no vessel without. 

Perhaps what would satisfy us most would be a silent communication, one which required less of the pouring out of “mind” or “reflection” and more of the gratification of a total experience: for example, the sudden realization of potential ... or the exhibition of strength and beauty — an ecstatic pouring out and receiving, at the same time ... not really understanding this ecstatic here and now ... yet having it!  We identify our basic need for exaltation, as opposed to what we merely want.  Once in this exalted state, we do not satisfy the “need” for communication, but have eliminated that need altogether.  The superfluity is.  It knows nothing of “need” or “want.”  It is enough to spill over.  If there are no vessels to receive and contain ... what is that to the experience?

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