American drama -- 20th century; Experimental fiction, American; Prose poems
A candle light does not mean that there are candles, a candle light
means arithmetic and training and ways of stating a question and it
means much more, it means that every night if there is moonlight there
is that light, and light has so much place in a lighted place that every
one is accustomed to it.
It is so wintry and hair is blowing and all the slippery slides have
water on them, it is so summery and wind is water and all that is red is
what is burning, the whole excitement, all the wedding shows the spring
to be the place where water springs, all the horizon, all the dwelling
shows that escaping is not an escapade that is in a suggestion. So to
reason and so to eclipse and so to redden the western sun, so to accept
and so to annoy and so to have no piece of money, so much so is not a
tangible substance, it is intangible and therefore it is sliced.
A toil that has no frozen dish-water, a trembling that has an appetite,
a refusal that has a nervous extremity, an expression that has a
direction of disregarding, all this shows the essential use of a
minority, they show it and they caution it, they do not outrage giving
it credit. The time does not come to any one who is pardoned, it comes
and then when there is patience when there is use, when there is talking
and a table, when there is even a slice of ham, it comes then to be
announced that certainly understanding is what is not partial, it is so
kind and strong and lengthy that certainly there is no disgrace.
A goose girl is no goose girl when there are geese. A church is a
church. A ship is a ship. Thunder is thunder.
Silence which makes silence give that sense to all there is, silence
which has light and water and unison and appetite and result and a
motion and more exaggeration and no recklessness, silence which is there
is not disturbed by expression.
There is no doubt of one thing there is no doubt that the real rate of
establishing frequency is that which is used when there are numbers.
What comes out of silence. What comes out of silence is that which
having that usefulness, that nature, and that fashion is not shown to be
managed by the combination.
Surely silence is sustained and the change is sudden.
Supposing that there was no use for that which there is use for,
supposing there was a bridge there where there is what there is,
supposing all this and suppose that the enlightenment of everybody
consisted in everybody having that condition, supposing all this, this
is then the answer that silence gives in answer. The silence that is not
preserved, the silence is the same as the characteristic which is not
finished.
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