Noon

Camus, The Rebel Part 5

Typhoon and sap

Both have no shape of own.  Typhoon moves fast. It explodes with pressure and wind, any enclosed space.  Sap seems almost not to move, yet it is gradually reaching further but requires patience, does not control its path, and is limited to its current body.

Typhoon is expedient- it wins by destroying all that stands in its way but in its winning it wins nothing but its ruin. It will not be denied it has a direction until it is exhausted and dissipates.

Sap is sweet and hidden.  It is a life force. It feeds the tree.  Once it overflows its limits it is sticky and hardens. Resin (some call sap)- ultimately amber, a reminder of the natural life force,  defends against invaders and wounds. Copal, hardening resin,  is burnt in ceremonies- the scent is sacred.  Sap is distilled into syrup and eaten (it is no longer sap); its taste is sweet.

Typhoon is absolute.

Sap is limited.

Camus leads us to understand that anything absolute is destined to accept murder and therefore must be separate from honor and is not true to the nowness, and gestural eternal act of formation and limitation that is rebellion.

Typhoon kills...

Sap nourishes...

absolutly

Revolt #2

Thw dandy is the not quite middle aged artist.  It is a phase that we (i) have all gone through.  "To live and die before the mirror" is the dandie's slogan according the Baudelaire via Bower via Camus pg 51.  MAry shelly only lived to 52, Percy only to 30 and Byron to 32.  They may have matured past the dandy mirrored navel gazing phase had they lived aslong as I expect to.  I have noticed that the young ones do not understand us old ones.  It is up to us old ones to be all the nore undersatdning of the young.

Revolt does not equal revolting in English.  Does ones cultural history influence the understanding of concepts as well as vocabulary?  Yes
I fear for the young people of today listening to the "president
' of the US presenting his "very" limited vocabulary, sad, and his self serving motivations .  How will this influence oury oung people in another 10 to 20 years.  I have been going back to what I can remember about being a high-schooler during the Reagan era.  I remember the end of the big chill of fear about the "bomb".  My parents lived through a more vsceral fear of the "bomb" and now our kids are blase about the whole situation.  This disregard or unconcern with the folly of our leaders is at once healthy and an erosion of our future possibilities.

I work with teenagers every day that are disenfranchized and treat every story or post as equal.  The fight at school the latest tweet from our "president"  i tis all just a redictulous show