The City and The City
Jun. 28th, 2011 02:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wolven7I see, in written language, the diagram of a city, and, in the map of city streets, a conversation, a description, a name for itself.
The line of sight of a set of telephone wires intersecting their backdrop of clouded blue sky is a whispered word to you about exactly who what and where you are.
The rustle of a branch and leaves in the wind of the passing car with its engine growling low menace and its radio pumping music, talk, static, is a keen warning of things to come.
The way you look at her, at him, at hir, and the exact way xie doesn't look back at you, is a discourse on loss and memory.
The sense of yourself across space and time, the understanding of who and what you are now, juxtaposed against who and what you were then: A stern reminder that you're always more unaware than you think you are.
The intersection of any two or more things is a conversation.
Good night.
The line of sight of a set of telephone wires intersecting their backdrop of clouded blue sky is a whispered word to you about exactly who what and where you are.
The rustle of a branch and leaves in the wind of the passing car with its engine growling low menace and its radio pumping music, talk, static, is a keen warning of things to come.
The way you look at her, at him, at hir, and the exact way xie doesn't look back at you, is a discourse on loss and memory.
The sense of yourself across space and time, the understanding of who and what you are now, juxtaposed against who and what you were then: A stern reminder that you're always more unaware than you think you are.
The intersection of any two or more things is a conversation.
Good night.
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Noise to Signal...
Date: 2011-06-28 06:31 am (UTC)Randomness is only a descriptor of those patterns and their causation.
All intersections are causations and caused.
The trick is finding what is noise, and what is signal.
But one cannot forget that what is noise now, is signal when the question is asked a different way.
Re: Noise to Signal...
Date: 2011-06-28 04:02 pm (UTC)Precisely. Perspective shift, time, differences in understanding, all of these cause us to draw our Pattern Lines in a different way, and-- if we're not aware-- leave us trying to understand why we previously thought the randomness was a pattern.
Re: Noise to Signal...
Date: 2011-06-29 10:18 am (UTC)Re: Noise to Signal...
Date: 2011-06-30 03:30 am (UTC)