Reminders for Future Escape from the Memory Hole...

Leo Strauss on Esoteric Writing?

"There are reasons in nature why the obscure idea, when properly conveyed, should be more affecting than the clear: It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration, and chiefly excites our passions. Whereas knowledge and acquaintance make the most striking causes affect but little."

-Edmund Burke, "A Philosophical Investigation into the Sublime and the Beautiful

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"a poem" - a form made of signifiers, linguistic signs - is a thing because it cannot be dissolved, into meanings"

- Byung-Chul Han, "Non-Things"

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“We can express our feelings regarding the world around us either by poetic or by descriptive means... I prefer to express myself metaphorically. Let me stress: metaphorically, not symbolically. A symbol contains within itself a definite meaning, certain intellectual formula, while metaphor is an image. An image possessing the same distinguishing features as the world it represents. An image — as opposed to a symbol — is indefinite in meaning. One cannot speak of the infinite world by applying tools that are definite and finite. We can analyse the formula that constitutes a symbol, while metaphor is a being-within-itself, it’s a monomial. It falls apart at any attempt of touching it."

- Andrei Tarkovsky