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Ichabod!

2002-07-17 9:38 p.m.

i think i shook up a few trinitarians in cornerstone tonight. i went over to talk to jonathan spadea about nd and his dorm (oneill). but i was also carrying a cage of crickets with me. none of them said anything...but they stared.

the other night i rehearsed a bit with christopher. and i love listening to him talk. and i cant write while my mom has the tv on so im gonna go get my headphones. yeah. so this time he told me about how he doesnt believe in logic any longer. so many times what people argue for or believe in is something they have emotional ties to, or only have emotional ties to because they are forced to argue for it. and how interpersonal relations could be improved if everyone would just become detached, and not emotionally involved with their points of view. so now his goal now is to become completely detached, from every thing. things, himself, other people. which is hard because it means giving up any degree of love or affection for other people. which brought us to discuss carson mccullers "the ballad of the sad cafe" ((one of my favorites)). where he illustrated his point with an example of the objectification of the beloved by the lover. and maybe attachment isnt the evil, but objectification. but we objectify everything, we become attached to things. objectify the beloved in the body or an image in the mind, or objectify a platform, a stance, an ideology, an era, a future possibility, a feeling, a desire. here have we come to the applicable truth in christophers rant? to become totally detached in every way is nearly impossible and impractical. but to acknowledge and realize objectification as a part of attachment is a good thing to understand.

to say christopher is not worth listening to is to say that hyperbole is not a useful literary tool.