"High flippancy" here means the importation of a hidden pathos into an off-hand remark. While my comment might appear to be a dismissive shrug in your direction, I thought that coupled with my questions posted at Seynsgeschichte this irony would come clear as being self-directed, my form of the confession so typical of The Whirlpool's Rim: when confronted with the exercise of saying what I think about your post, when I ask myself what makes me struggle to reach the heart of the thought weaving and dodging out of my grasp, I find myself absurdly without resources even to say why it matters to me what you mean.
You will, perhaps, observe in what manner, in accord with the same logic of irony you express above, my own questioning of high flippancy has only heightened the flippancy.
Regarding your point as to "why it matters," I think it is important to concede in what manner the things that do not matter hardly elude our attempts to articulate why ---in fact they usually do not even eveoke such attempts. (cf. the initial parsimony of thought in this respect over at my comments to your response)
I should add to that last remark, however ---and perhaps you were getting at this ---that things which do matter, and indeed in someway matter the most, these things, though they remain undefined for all eternity --and that means surely they have a tendency to be "weaving and dodging out of [our] grasp" --these things, I say, though they come come very late, come at the right time.
I don't know why this has to do with High Flippancy. Low flippancy maybe.
ReplyDelete"High flippancy" here means the importation of a hidden pathos into an off-hand remark. While my comment might appear to be a dismissive shrug in your direction, I thought that coupled with my questions posted at Seynsgeschichte this irony would come clear as being self-directed, my form of the confession so typical of The Whirlpool's Rim: when confronted with the exercise of saying what I think about your post, when I ask myself what makes me struggle to reach the heart of the thought weaving and dodging out of my grasp, I find myself absurdly without resources even to say why it matters to me what you mean.
ReplyDeleteYou will, perhaps, observe in what manner, in accord with the same logic of irony you express above, my own questioning of high flippancy has only heightened the flippancy.
ReplyDeleteRegarding your point as to "why it matters," I think it is important to concede in what manner the things that do not matter hardly elude our attempts to articulate why ---in fact they usually do not even eveoke such attempts. (cf. the initial parsimony of thought in this respect over at my comments to your response)
I should add to that last remark, however ---and perhaps you were getting at this ---that things which do matter, and indeed in someway matter the most, these things, though they remain undefined for all eternity --and that means surely they have a tendency to be "weaving and dodging out of [our] grasp" --these things, I say, though they come come very late, come at the right time.
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