息の出会い

Lyn Hejinian and Leslie Scalapino's collaboration is organized around the act and idea of seeing, written in the form of a literary dialogue. A joint investigation into the workings of experience, how experience happens, what it consists of, how the experience (perceiving, feeling, thinking) of it occurs, what sensation of sensing tells us. Scalapino - the sight is the reverse of the occurrence, Hejinian - sight is lyrical, because its subtext is annihilation. ~ Sight by Lyn Hejinian & Leslie Scalapino.

“To travel is to discover that everybody is wrong,” Aldous Huxley wrote, en route to Borneo, in his travelogue Jesting Pilate. “The philosophies, the civilizations, which seem, at a distance, so superior to those current at home, all prove on a close inspection to be in their own way just as hopelessly imperfect. That knowledge, which only travel can give, is worth, it seems to me, all the trouble, all the discomfort and expense of a circumnavigation.”