RE
Your questions are provacative, Squirrley, but I must change the direction of your discourse, redirect the ideas, if you will.
>if we fall into emptiness what is to fear?
Nothing. Emptiness is the sum of all fears.
>(binarily)…does fulfillment hang above?
Fulfillment, I think is very close to the opposite of emptiness; but the truth of the matter is that emptiness oft times masquerades itself as fulfillment. A dirty lie–pure and utter kitsch–is the sort of fulfillment that has at its core nothing at all.
>How is emptiness embodied in a voice?
It is not and cannot be embodied in any way. How does one signify absense? ø? The inherrent instability of absence as a symbol is due to its unembodied nature (aww, the power of language to discuss nothing). If we shifted to a Post-Structuralist metaview (logically impossible, to be sure:) we would find that all voices are actually empty, and that asking whether anything can be embodied in a voice is ridiculous empty play.
To be sure, perhaps the phraseology is “wrought,” but I think the idea is magnificent. Emptiness…which tempts is merely a positive way of communicating the desire to deny substance, to deny meaning and identity.
PS. I leave for my honeymoon tomorrow. Scan the archives, leave a note…
Aug 9th 2005
…this blog has quietly eliminated anonymous commenting…
Aug 9th 2005
eliminate anonymous commenting so as to cut out some spam, and what do you know, the first new comment is SPAM. Oh SPAM, how I hate you–loathe you with more bitterness than a cutthroat auto salesman.
Aug 10th 2005
I hear you, Tim. A lot of others, including me, have been having this problem. What a pain in the you-know-what.
What i really wanted to say was congratulations to you and your wife, and may the Lord bless you both! Not very original, i know…but sincere all the same. (:
Aug 14th 2005
come, come–even dear derrida acknowledges the high stakes of play (in regards to embodiment too, I believe), so to say “asking whether anything can be embodied in a voice is ridiculous empty play,” even in ironic jest, seems to be a bit unfair . . .
and how on earth can you concern yourself with such play when a honeymoon is in order! i wish i was abroad . . .
Aug 22nd 2005
all apologies for any unfairness