Extraordinary Discourse Podcast

Back Talk And Side Talk I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. Ursula K. Le Guin

Talk It Through Propositions, sentences, sentence-tokens, statements, concepts, beliefs, thoughts, intuitions, utterances, judgments, declarations, explanations, questions.

Excerptional Excepts Many native traditions held clowns and tricksters as essential to any contact with the sacred. People could not pray until they had laughed, because laughter opens and frees from rigid preconception. Humans had to have tricksters within the most sacred ceremonies for fear that they forget the sacred comes through upset, reversal, surprise. The trickster in most native traditions is essential to creation, to birth. Byrd Gibbens

F Your "Curriculum" …art was perhaps this—the psychological component of the autoimmune system. It works on the artist as a healing. But it works on others too, as a medicine. Hence our great, insatiable thirst for it. However it comes out—whether a design in a carpet, a painting on a wall, the shaping of a doorway—we recognize that medicinal element because of the instant healing effect, and we call it art. It consoles and heals something in us. That’s why that aspect of things is so important, and why what we want to preserve in civilizations and societies is their art—because it’s a living medicine that we can still use. It still works. We feel it working. Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry this healing. Poetry does it more intensely. Music, maybe, most intensely of all. Ted Hughes, The Art of Poetry No. 71 Paris Review

Turn Your Head Around I wonder if they didn't almost roll their thoughts round their brains and savour them like vintage port. "Hunter" ("Professor of Historical Theology and Ethics"), Owen Barfield's Worlds A part

Open Your Trap! Love without conversation is impossible. Mortimer Adler

So To Speak An experience makes its appearance only when it is being said, and unless it is said it is, so to speak, non-existent. Hannah Arendt