8ix 2mol - Rad'S "mental Masturbation" Nights

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City:

Canada, Quebec, Montreal

Time:

Fri Aug 24, 2007 @ 6:00pm

Promoter:

Carpediem
yannhr@hotmail.com

Eat earn it Ian fin it!, all
Nown fumber

Location:

3-4410 Bannentyne-A block N. of Verdun Metro

Description:

To be sure, man the believer has no ground to stand on, strictly speaking. No ground to stand on, and in the bargain his believing is light as air, spun like a web without weight, a net of gossamer threads binding this and that and a thousand things distant and dim, dusty and dumb, together. His believing is like his freedom; indeed, his freedom is the reason for believing. It is the open door, the invitation to share in the fulfillment of existence, the chance to lure reality within reach. It is the act by which man proves himself human, daring to stretch the stubborn contradictions of existence until the make sense.
In our time believing has become fanatical and neurotic, largely because it has been set over against the pretensions of reason and the spurious claims of overconfident science. Be-lief is reason itself moving in a larger perspective than logic or arguable truth. It is the effect of a confident and promising relationship with reality. It is, in short, essential to the develop-ment of man`s full nature and a necessary requirement for the unrestricted disclosure of reality.

The shattering of age-old foundations has left us insecure and anxious. The world is filled with a frightening amount of change. Business, styles, education, morals, science, music-all change while we look on in amazement. And it is not the kind of change known a generation ago, which hap-pened once in a lifetime, but the kind that happens with every step we take. Nothing holds steady. Everything has taken on the character of the moving picture, where the scene changes with every flash of light. As the Angle Gabriel said, in Green Pastures, “Everything nailed down is comin` loose.”

The critical step into responsible selfhood, or learning to live at the level of the soul, is an act which re-quires great courage. There is no way to take this step which does not demand the total passion of the self. It is a long leap and a desperate one, from easy conformity to inner freedom. Few take it, and all who do, gasp at the risk involved.
For when the issue is faced, it means that freedom is no longer the vacuous flippancy but a vibrant terror of real change. The ground of one`s being is not longer static, but surges like the tides of the sea. The heights are as frightening as the abysses. To become a soul is to reckon with the continuous crisis of becoming.

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In his poem “The New Year Letter,” W. H. Auden reminds us that

There are two atlases: the one
The public space where acts are done,
In theory common to us all, . . .
The other is the inner space…
That each of us is forced to own,…
The landscape of his will and need…
Where he patrols the forest tracts
Planted in childhood, farms the belt
Of doings memorized and felt,
And even if he find it in hell
May neither leave it nor rebel. 1

1 Collected Poetry (New York: Random House, 1945), pp. 296-97.

The man bent over his guitar,
A shearsman of sorts. The day was green.
They said, “You have a blue guitar,
You do not play things as they are.”

The Man replied, “Things as they are
Are changed upon the blue guitar.”3

3The Collected Poems of Wallace Stephens (New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1954), p. 73.

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