{"id":31,"date":"2017-01-13T13:33:33","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T13:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogg.hiof.no\/blindspot\/?p=31"},"modified":"2017-02-22T14:28:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T14:28:42","slug":"material-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogg.hiof.no\/blindspot\/2017\/01\/13\/material-1\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Sociological Psychology of the Hole"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The most important things are done through tubes. Proof: genitals, pens, and guns.” – Lichtenberg<\/em><\/p>\n

The hole is a permanent companion of the non-hole;<\/p>\n

I’m sorry, but there is no such thing as a hole by itself.<\/p>\n

If there were something everywhere, there would be no holes, but there wouldn’t be any philosophy either, not to mention religion, which is holey in origin.<\/p>\n

A mouse couldn’t exist without a hole, nor could man. It is the final salvation for both when they are hard-pressed by matter.<\/p>\n

A hole is always a Good Thing.<\/p>\n

The strangest thing about a hole is its edge.<\/p>\n

It’s still part of the Something, but it constantly overlooks the Nothing\u2014a border guard of matter.<\/p>\n

Nothingness has no such guard; while the molecules at the edge of a hole get dizzy because they are staring into a hole, the molecules of the hole get… firmy?<\/p>\n

There’s no word for it. For our language was created by the Something people; the Hole people speak a language of their own.<\/p>\n

The hole is static.<\/p>\n

There are no traveling holes.<\/p>\n

Almost not .<\/p>\n

Holes that are marrying each other become one of their own.<\/p>\n

Separate the partition between two holes, does the right edge then belong to the left hole, or the left to<\/p>\n

the right, or everybody to itself, or everybody to everybody ?<\/p>\n

I\u2019d like to have my worries.<\/p>\n

When a hole is filled up, where does it go ?<\/p>\n

Will it push itself to the side, right into the material ?<\/p>\n

Or will it run to see another hole and tell him about his misery ?<\/p>\n

Where does the filled hole remain ?<\/p>\n

Nobody knows.<\/p>\n

Here, our knowledge … has one.<\/p>\n

Where something is, nothing else can be.<\/p>\n

Where one hole is , can there be another one ?<\/p>\n

And why aren\u2019t there any half-holes ?<\/p>\n

Some things lose value because of a single small hole:<\/p>\n

because in a part of them there is a \u201cno-thing\u201d, all the rest isn\u2019t worth anything anymore.<\/p>\n

Example: a ticket, a virgin, a balloon.<\/p>\n

The thing itself still has to be looked for:<\/p>\n

the hole itself already is.<\/p>\n

One that would be with one foot in a hole and the other foot with us, this one alone would be truly wise.<\/p>\n

But no one has been able to achieve this yet.<\/p>\n

Some megalomaniacs pretend that the hole is a negative thing. That is not right!<\/p>\n

The human being is a not-hole and the hole is primary.<\/p>\n

Do not laughole! The hole is the only premonition of paradise down here. When you’re dead, you’ll first realize what life is about.<\/p>\n

Kurt Tucholsky 1931<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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