out of sight of land?

musEleanor (muse@cooper.edu)
Tue, 5 Aug 1997 14:26:09 -0400

musEleanor returns from the edge of the world, a madcap trip on every
posible plane; undoubtedly the most dismissive and excruciating of which
was the literal plane, a 747 jumpstart to Helsinki, followed by
ever-diminishing aerovehicles on to Kemi (707), Rovaneimi (piper), Alta
(cub) and the final destination: Nordcap (hummingbird).

If one accepts the bipolar situation of north pole and south pole, as if
the earth could be actually upright albeit slightly tipsy with a cap on its
head, a plug in its bottom (no incontinence jokes please) and a belt called
equator holding up the stuff below its middle, then
Nordcap in Norway is the edge of the world in Europe.

musEleanor fled there from the epistomological dilemma presented by this
forum. She is frightened that someone here may be building Oz behind the
curtain by reading and absorbing all the wonderful threads of wisdom and
porpoise-play here and constructing a diagrammatic rendering which will by
its very nature, whether chart, map, script, code, anagram, or any other
constraint or instrument of torture, set the limitations, erect the fences
as it were, to the natural ineffable development of this forum as a sea of
stories (cite Haroun, Rushdie)

The question is: Is there anyone here who knows it all? Or thinks they
do? If so, shouldnt we be concerned that this person is dangerous? Will
they leap the chasm gorged with epistomological exchange and kazoom it into
a neat pedagogical pantry where recipes will rear heads of
let-us-now-prey-on-knowledge-and-imagination-luddites to produce new
nonfat, pasteurized, nonclinging, unobsessive, formulas for language and
thereby evolve a world where everyone would be equal in their easy ability
to defend cliche?

Perhaps this is an inevitable part of the bi-cycle, and perhaps the three
circles of Lacan's Borromean knot have always been revolving at identical
paces and therefore have always been touching in the same places; only
thrilling us because they moved at all.

Did musElenaor find the answer at Norcap? Yes and No. The Nordcap
peninsula (even as a major tourist attraction, this does not give it
gender), was completely fogged in, so that the musE and other pilgrims
could not see what was out there, but only imagine it. At the thought that
this might have some kind of significance, musEleanor witnessed many
pilgrims leaping off the edge.

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