Madness of Vision by Buci-Glucksmann Christine; Baker Dorothy Z.;

Author:Buci-Glucksmann, Christine; Baker, Dorothy Z.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2014-07-07T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 6

PALIMPSESTS OF THE UNGAZEABLE

To ungaze

To descend into the abyss, to swoon, to be in ecstasy, to blaze, to no longer see, to be unable to see, to be stricken like Medusa, to be frozen in horror, in terribilità, in Eros.

To ungaze

To give oneself over to the powers of absence, to remember.

What is the human brain, if not an immense and natural palimpsest? Such a palimpsest is my brain is a palimpsest; such is yours too, reader. Everlasting layers of ideas, images, and feelings have fallen on your brain, as softly as the light. Each succession has seemed to bury all that went before. But yet in reality not one has perished. Nevertheless, between the palimpsest that carried, one superimposed over another, the Greek tragedy, the monkish legend, and the knightly romance, and the divine palimpsest created by God, which is our incommensurable memory, arises this difference, that there is something in the first of a fantastic, grotesque chaos, a collision between heterogeneous elements; whereas in the second the inevitability of temperament imposes a harmony among the most disparate elements.1

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