roachboy

asaris---

i was thinking of "fear and trembling" because it seemed most relevant to the discussion...and that primarily because there is this argument concerning proof in the thread, which made me think of the abraham and isaac stories, the juxtaposition of radically opposed orders, their incommensurability---so i used arbitrariness in a sense conditioned that way, in the sense that faith is not amenable to proof (a transposing of the a&i stories) and so.

you refer more to the situation of a believer (or one who wants to believe)....i take "fear and trembling" as written from the aesthetic viewpoint, and so works at a distance with reference to that situation.

it was easier to make the point that way: but sure....as a synopsis of kierkegaard it was way simplified.

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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

it make you sick.

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