25.5-3





[Full Flower Moon coming up on May 12...



Drafting:



I kind of can't help but write about everything, at the moment: I can't choose. 


I love the painter Agnes Martin. I often think about something she shared in a documentary (which doc I also love: titled <i>With My Back to the World</i>): she becomes very serious and says her one "rule" is that she never "goes below the line"... "not for anything." What does it mean to "go below the line", as Martin puts it here?


If we think of the will as like a body walking through Jorge Luis Borges's "Garden of Forking Paths", to "go below the line" is to follow the path of "gravity"---the path of expectation, as Simone Weil defines the concept in <i>Gravity and Grace</i>---as opposed to encountering and opening to the path of "grace", which leads by turns and surprises. This can be realized in concrete practice: one simply slows down, says "No" to the lower paths (and there are many), and by this act of "negative effort" (a phrase Weil uses in "Right Use of School Studies..." and maybe also "Implicit Forms"), one remains on a wider circuit. Strangely, the gravitational "center" of the labyrinthine garden is not at what <i>appears</i> to be the "center" to the walker: it's rather a "center of all centers" which is at both every point and no point in the garden. The shape of the garden itself is the "center". 







https://elianeradigue.bandcamp.com/album/adnos

... relates to moment in <i>With My Back to the World</i> (the film) around 23 min in when Martin describes her favorite shot in her film "Gabriel", of a large rock with waves crashing over it... she calls this an image of time



https://vimeo.com/964902943



https://archive.org/details/1972MalcomLegriceThreshold


https://letterboxd.com/film/from-sun-to-night-2019/



https://letterboxd.com/vertigodizzy/list/m-kitchells-canon/


http://topologyoftheimpossible.com/


https://uninhabitedspace.blogspot.com/?m=1

https://uninhabitedspace.blogspot.com/2018/07/blanche-marc-hurtado-1995-i-have.html?m=1



Lydia Davis's <i>Essays</i>: "Alan Cote" (p. 277: "You have to want it. 
It is like music, he says: We accept sound; are we willing to accept color---the way things look? ...")...

... and "Jesus Seminar"(?)... the Gospels themselves as well



Mei Mei's <i>Hello the Roses</i>




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"going below the line"... = "downward spiral", a spiraling that proves to be its own intoxicating form of power (see eg the Coppola Dracula or the Nine Inch Nails album... thinking of Sade on evil as the highest power here...)... Nine Inch Nails as embodying and fulling selling the attitude behind this in their stage presence / band persona: makes them absolutely perfect for the "Gotta Light?" episode of The Return, which brings us into the very heart of evil in the Twin Peaks universe/multiverse...