Saturday, October 15, 2005

Expression

There was a time not too long ago, when I used to tell ( ok... pester..) a few people to blog more often, since they write good, insightful posts. It never made sense that people stop writing, specially when they're gifted with clarity of thought and an articulate mind. I would wonder how people can go on for so long without expressing themselves.

Now I know better.

One just reaches a stage where some other form of expression takes precedence over discrete, quantized units of expression like words. It seems almost criminal to try and trap those birds of thought in gilded cages like words.

Other than that, one sometimes also faces an impossible situation, where "writing" seems to be as impossible as trying to clutch a moonbeam in your hand, or trap it in gilded cages. You're able to write only if thoughts present themselves to you in discrete forms. If the very source is analog, the task is quite impossible. You'd probably be deluding yourself, as you write on.

Of course, this too, is a passing phase like all the others. As fleeting as the bouts of verbosity I suffered from when I first started blogging. But that's only the initial deluge when the floodgates are opened. After a while, the flow subsides. On that gate.

In my case, music took precedence over words for a while. Hence the hiatus. Just like how certain phrases in Kannada that would keep you in splits, lose their humour when you translate them in English. And no amount of prodding would get me to blog when words don't come close to what I want to say.

There is such a thing as Intuitive Understanding, which isn't a flash in the pan, unlike the rest of these forms of expression. Most often, that is what we try to express through our attempts to string together words, brush strokes, colours, and notes. Life isn't all about words, gestures, deeds, caresses, punches, brush-strokes, colours, clear notes, chords, progressions and harmonizing notes. It's about WHAT we express through those. And I'll be blessed if I could put a finger on that. But coming back to expression and its forms,

Are there forms of expression that don't involve quantization?

We sure do have things to express that aren't bound by space, time, definitions, opinions, et al. But is there a non-discrete way to express them? Can continuity/purity of such elements be maintained even as we try to expess those through " percievable " methods?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Can continuity/purity of such elements be maintained even as we try to expess those through " percievable " methods?

My take on this - yes, if the receiver is on the same wavelength as you are. Kindred. Else, it is lost.

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Camphor said...

Yes. Music, for one. Expressions, tones more than words... but in this medium .. if there is a way, I'm yet to discover it.