Jasmine is a complete object.
Her language is based upon part of the difficulty.
A few additions (protective devices, danger signs, barricades,
an enclosed chute) make it a building, a bridge,
a highway, etc.
Racine, with his unerring good taste,
knows the danger of consistent understatement.
E.g., "This task is not for the fainthearted."
But, ahh, there is fun in danger, isn't there?
The artist: first a rough version, then anxiety
to wrap them up and take them from this place.
"A partial object is not a complete object."
And you can pretty much rely on "to thine own self be true".
A one-fourth human being is
not; and there is a danger in choosing
a sense object as the ideal.
(Even Phaedra cannot be a complete object of horror.)
The meaning of a 'danger' object
is merely the startled jump
which constitutes responses
to a complete object in all its setting.
Tuesday, October 04, 2005
Toward a Scientific Interpretation of the Default Object
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