i had more important announcements to make on the 3rd of this month, but something else happened on that day: my blog turned 1 year old. in honor of this event i’ve compiled all my archives for that year into one file. to read the entire first year of this blogging venture, simply click on “year one” in the right hand pane. the months for said year are included underneath. archives for the current year (year 2) will continue above them as usual.
whether you’ve been around since the beginning or only just found this page, thanks for reading. it’s been great [writing], and i hope that it continues for years to come.
while we’re in the mood of announcing new and fabulous things: i got my hair cut on saturday. it was just past shoulder-length, and is now a very abercrombie 2 inches.
the change, while it makes me look a few years younger (no more illegal alcohol runs), is welcome. life feels more manageable, and it’s not such a pain to put my headphones on.
also, being more aerodynamic now, i hope to shave a few seconds off my mile time.
Prologue
Between is a location defined not on its own, but in relation to two other places. One is behind, the other ahead–one past, the other future. As such, being between carries an inherent vertigo, a constant reminder that I am not…really…anywhere. I have begun the journey, though its resolution is not in sight. Land has long since disappeared off the Western horizon, and not yet emerged in the East. Will I eventually reach my destination, or, instead, fall off the rim of the world, deluded? In truth, we are all between–between life and death, between the extremes of utter evil and pure altruism, between clarity and self-deception. Such tension is a tightness of the heart: a hope, yet veiled, that beats with failing wings, against the airless cold of space, in flight toward a Radiance that burns downcast eyes.
Between, the first 12 steps in the life of Splendour Hyaline (consisting of Jonathan and David Lipps), will be released on compact disc in the last week of February 2003.
Look for splendourhyaline.com nearer to that time, for free sample mp3s.
“But it is also obvious that, although the schemata of sensibility first realize the categories, yet they likewise also restrict them, i.e., limit them to conditions that lie outside the understanding (namely, in sensibility). Hence the schema is really only the phenomenon, or the sensibile concept of an object, in agreement with the category. (Numerus est quantitas phaenomenon, sensatio realitas phaenomenon, constans et perdurabile rerum substantia phaenomenon - aeternitas, necessitas phaenomena etc.). Now if we leave aside a restricting condition, it may seem as if we amplify the previously limited concept; thus the categories in their pure significance, without any conditions of sensibility, should hold for things in general, as they are, instead of their schemata merely representing them how they apear, and they would therefore have a significance independent of all schemata and extending far beyond them.”
Was this the fault of the author or the translators?