Consolation and Displacement

Susan Sontag, "Unextinguished: The Case for Victor Serge" collected in At The Same Time

The truth of fiction depicts that for which one can never be consoled and displaces it with a healing openness to everything finite and cosmic.

This is not something easy to do but remarkably within reach. It requires a training of attention.

And so for day 594
29.07.2008