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出版Humble Essayist Press, 2022-05
主題Biography & Autobiography / GeneralPhilosophy / General
ISBN17345177519781734517750
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=LajhzgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Soul-Error explores the ways in which, stubbornly yet creatively, we go through life misreading ourselves and our world. Heraclites claimed, long ago, that no one steps in the same river twice. Reprising that riddle, Soul-Error explores how our lives, kaleidoscopically, take on new contours, abandoning old ones.Put some flesh on these bones. A man divorcing a spouse of 30 years' standing declares (to himself, to others), "I never loved her." A friend once said just this to author Philip Weinstein. He and his wife had been close to them both; countless conversations, shared meals and travel, their kids growing up as friends. Did he never love her? Or did his present need to divorce her keep him from recognizing who he had been-who they both had been-earlier?It needs no Heraclitus to tell us that an experience-looked forward to-will not coincide with the experience that later arrives. No surprise here: we are all failed soothsayers. But reckoning with our past may involve more intractable error. What to make of the gap between how our past seemed at the time and how we understand it later? What if seeing through it means losing it? Two-dimensional now, a set of images satisfyingly seen around, our revised past has shed its living density-when it was present. Does re-seeing our past amount to lobotomizing our actual life over time? We are resourceful actors moving through time and space; we span them both as we enact our evolving identity. No less, space and time span and play us in return. Soul-Error attempts to take the measure of this double-edged play.