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i would think that you know you have left at the moment you can consider the environment that was previously simply given as a discrete entity.
when the cave, to stick with this, goes from being your world to being a cave.
like the ways in which your relation to the world shpaed for you by your parents, say, changes as you age--from being the horizons of the world itself to beng the framework fashioned by two people (or more) that determined the point of entry you had into this bigger, more complex space you call the world.
you dont have to physically move at all.
as for the assumption that pleasure (bliss) would lie only in immediacy---well if you really think that, then you cram your life into a loop of compensatory nostalgia.
your image of immediacy would be rooted in displacements and projections about the content of that mode.
but your ways of thinking about this lost immediacy would have nothing to do with that "lost mode"....
you could spend your life there, too, because there would be no reason for you to ever encounter the gap that seperates your beliefs about the lost state from what that state was.
even if you could go backward in time, which you cant, what you would be looking for would never have existed.
better to do something else, no?
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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