INTERPRETATION

An interpretive act is above all else a deed and is done to and for the future. It is a process through which isolating foreignness is overcome. It is a process that is made necessary by virtue of human differences. It does not destroy, but harmonizes, these differences. The act of interpretation is the psychic substance of solidarity; it turns an indifferent collection into real community, into cohesion and intimacy. Interpretation creates relations that the interpreter loves; it demands response and makes the purest forms of love for community possible. Interpretation is a community-making act of the greatest possible satisfaction. -Ron Price with thanks to Josiah Royce(1855-1916) in Modernist Quartet, Frank Lentricchia, Cambridge UP, 1994.

The whole thing is multitudinous
beyond imagination, tangled, muddy,
painful, perplexing, adjacent hetero-
geneity, cacophony, diffusion, an
infinite number of eaches, a multitude
of overarching meta-narratives seeking
synthesis, stories interlacing, interlocking,
intertwining: emergent transcendence

A universe of many editions, mental,
spiritual, where our thoughts are cells
in a cosmic mind and the miracles of
one millennia become the basics of the
next, astrology to astronomy, mind into
spirit and mortal, perhaps, to Immortal.

Ron Price
31 May 1997

You've said this before.

Fred

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"For shame, gentlemen, pack your evidence a little better against another time."
-- John Dryden, "The Vindication of The Duke of Guise" 1684