Aphorisms on a Study of Shadows and Dreams

I

Somewhere, someone dreams of me. The sand repeats other sand, the mirror other mirrors. I am an abstraction among abstractions, a dream among other dreams–an emptiness that echoes the voluptuness of nothing.

II

Shadow, sun, object, people, moon. The sun produces a shadow. A shadow assumes an object. And an object, a shadow. Each necessitates the other. But even of necessity, that is not always the case. For the sun suggests the moon, the moon, the evening. And the evening… the shades sheathe in shade.

III

A shadow peels.

Somewhere, someone is the evening–looming, producing.

I is another

IV

The moon is not a moon, nor the sun just a sun, but a copy, a shadow, lying to an object.

V

For example, just as– 

Every something is an echo of nothing

John Cage

–so too am I only a shadow between something and nothing. I am not merely nothing or something. For if I were nothing, then by just being nothing, I am something. I am only between the sound and the echo, the shadow and me.



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