agamisu (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} agamisu) wrote,@ 2007-12-10 09:49:00 |
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What's in a Word?
As you may all be aware, I haven't been blogging for a while. Well, mindlessly busy among other things. Deeply buried in travel from place to place and spending time in foreign offices, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Paris, Rotterdam to name a few, and Bangalore just coming up. Shanghai, Manila to come. Busy boy.
Anyway, as the inestimable Mr. Klima suggested something, I thought it was a worthy cause.
So, why did I choose my word for LOGGORHEA, that wonderful little anthology edited by said Mr. Klima?
The word itself is EUDAEMONIC. Think about the word. Roll it around on your tongue and feel the shape of it. Something that's the bringing of joy, and yet it contains a demon, or a daemon if you will. You demonic enitity. You demonic thing, you make me happy. You bring me joy. It's all there in the layers of meaning and sound contained within the word. Lovely.
And just as a teaser, here's another take on it by Vandermeer.
EUDAEMONIC
From the Book of Smaragdine, 1st Edition:
People from far off places ask why we worship the Green. They think of us as fools or outcasts. Yet even an ape can understand that human beings are born, live, and die. Even a beggar knows the alchemy in this basic transformation. To achieve true understanding, then, and thus true happiness, it is important to understand that transformation. Otherwise, our stay here is a ceaseless wandering, whether we roam or not.
Would you like to hear a riddle?
What power is strong with all power and will defeat every subtle thing and penetrate every solid thing?
In giving yourself to the Green you will know what it means to search for answers to questions such as these. You will become secure in your happiness.
People say that we do not know what happened to the Tablet, that it has been hidden from us for a reason. But this matters not. If we fail in the finding or the reaching,
should ever our own city fall and be forgotten, then still we shall be eudaemonic in the failure.
There you go.
If you are piqued, then try these as well:
The Podcast:
http://virtualantho.blogspot.com/2007/1
Mr Klima's master post:
http://evzine.blogspot.com/2007/12/logo
The Logorrhea main site:
http://www.logorrheabook.com
As you may all be aware, I haven't been blogging for a while. Well, mindlessly busy among other things. Deeply buried in travel from place to place and spending time in foreign offices, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Paris, Rotterdam to name a few, and Bangalore just coming up. Shanghai, Manila to come. Busy boy.
Anyway, as the inestimable Mr. Klima suggested something, I thought it was a worthy cause.
So, why did I choose my word for LOGGORHEA, that wonderful little anthology edited by said Mr. Klima?
The word itself is EUDAEMONIC. Think about the word. Roll it around on your tongue and feel the shape of it. Something that's the bringing of joy, and yet it contains a demon, or a daemon if you will. You demonic enitity. You demonic thing, you make me happy. You bring me joy. It's all there in the layers of meaning and sound contained within the word. Lovely.
And just as a teaser, here's another take on it by Vandermeer.
EUDAEMONIC
From the Book of Smaragdine, 1st Edition:
People from far off places ask why we worship the Green. They think of us as fools or outcasts. Yet even an ape can understand that human beings are born, live, and die. Even a beggar knows the alchemy in this basic transformation. To achieve true understanding, then, and thus true happiness, it is important to understand that transformation. Otherwise, our stay here is a ceaseless wandering, whether we roam or not.
Would you like to hear a riddle?
What power is strong with all power and will defeat every subtle thing and penetrate every solid thing?
In giving yourself to the Green you will know what it means to search for answers to questions such as these. You will become secure in your happiness.
People say that we do not know what happened to the Tablet, that it has been hidden from us for a reason. But this matters not. If we fail in the finding or the reaching,
should ever our own city fall and be forgotten, then still we shall be eudaemonic in the failure.
There you go.
If you are piqued, then try these as well:
The Podcast:
http://virtualantho.blogspot.com/2007/1
Mr Klima's master post:
http://evzine.blogspot.com/2007/12/logo
The Logorrhea main site:
http://www.logorrheabook.com
