The Impossible Lack of Ability to Comprehend “Where is the end of it, the soundless wailing…” — T.S. Eliot, The Four Quartets, The Dry Savages, line 49 I do not know much of God. For what I know is infinitesimal. For all my arguing and listening, I know less still. And in stillness is both the impossible urge to know and the impossible lack of ability to understand. It loosens […]
Brock Travis | Perfection Teaching
RECENTLY I WENT DOWN TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA to see my old friend James, who is ninety. He says his legs are getting weak. He doesn’t see or hear well any more. During the visit I had to help him with the door because he couldn’t see the black door handle, and his hearing aid, when he used it, often gave off a faint whistling sound. When I called him to […]
Samuel K. Wilkes | Night Swimming
FRANK COCKED HIS HEAD and looked to me for the answer. I could tell he wanted to say something. What’s the matter? He cocked his head the other way. I dropped to my knees, as if getting closer might help me understand his curiosity. He ran his rough tongue across my face. My eyelids stuck to one another from the glue of his saliva. What the hell’s gotten in to […]
Movies You Might’ve Missed: Dreams of Awakening
NO DOUBT the two best-known movies about “dreaming our reality” are The Matrix and Inception. The Matrix is, of course, about waking up to the fact that we’re sleepwalking through our existence, while Inception portrays the use of lucid dreaming for nefarious purposes—to steal ideas from another’s subconscious, as well as to plant them. Though Inception’s plot is far-fetched and difficult to follow—even the characters have a hard time keeping track […]
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