metonymy4u

hegel and marx were the philosophers of history who thought that history would end with their understandings. i rather agree with derrida and rorty that history has no end and that metaphors are the interminable events with which we realize our future now. every poem, every image, every event constructed in the manner of what the zen tradition calls “silent illumination” is a throw into this unconfirmed future. believing that, as dick allen observed, “if you talk to nowhere long enough…meanings are reduced to surprises,” i think we all ought to contribute.