The Sun of Nietzsche and the Black Hole of Borges: An Affirmation and Negation of Life

“Catatonia, convulsion, cannibalism, and cruelty are stupid. Kindness is smart. Forget love. Be kind.” Amber Nickel, The Art of Making, 2001.

The Sun of Nietzsche and the Black Hole of Borges: An Affirmation and Negation of Life

Nothing cures great loss. Everything vanishes. Past, present, future, everything is connected to the infinity of things. Everything must go. Everything is this one thing, this invisible abstraction, this nothing. This one thing is nothing. Jorge Luis Borges looks for a tiger, thinks of one in the poem, “The Other Tiger” p 117 Selected Poems (SP)1999. Yet, “the act … of guessing what is its nature and its circumstance creates a fiction, not a living creature.” This grief prowls the pages of his work. This plurality of guesses of the nature of things and their circumstances (event environments), this fiction, this effective guess justifies destruction with an aesthetic of oblivion. This noble predator, this big cat, this sublime ...