What's raging in me is ancient. Mountains have risen and species have come and gone under its observation. Even stars have formed and collapsed. It is not a stretch to say that in the singularity at the beginning of time, it was there. And it will continue until the heat death of the universe, and past even that.
>>24782655I think it's an interesting paradox that such feelings turn in empty kitsch unless you treat them lightly, with irony, and in relation to all the mundane contemporary parts of you. You betray the primordial by acting as if you can bring it into the light and comprehend it and commune with it directly. Maybe once that wasn't true, but it's true now for our society. That's why a goofy Kafka story about the circus, or a modest Emily Dickinson poem about bugs, is haunted with more primordial mystery than any gaudy attempt to write 'a modern epic' or 'awaken the warrior spirit' imo.
