LABYRINTH ~~

LABYRINTH

Excerpt from Borges' The Circular Ruins:

"At first, his dreams were chaotic; a little 
later, they became dialectical. The foreigner 
dreamed that he was in the center of a circular 
amphitheater, which was somehow the ruined 
temple; clouds of taciturn students completely 
filled the terraces of seats. The faces of those 
farthest away hung at many centuries' distance 
and at a cosmic height, yet they were absolutely 
clear. The man lectured on anatomy, cosmography, magic; the faces listened 
earnestly, intently, and attempted to respond 
with understanding—as though they sensed the 
importance of that education that would 
redeem one of them from his state of hollow 
appearance and insert him into the real world. 
The man, both in sleep and when awake, 
pondered his phantasms' answers; he did not 
allow himself to be taken in by impostors, and 
he sensed in certain perplexities a growing 
intelligence. He was seeking a soul worthy of 
taking its place in the universe. "


I think there's an interesting path here between the idea of one's life on earth, one's life inside his own dreams, and one's life in it's full prospect- what we will to become.



He dreamed of life. He dreamed up life. 



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labyrinth_fish


"To speak is to commit tautologies."

These ideas of linear and non linear time- like also the stories we read, kept going in circles. A labyrinth is some place 'moment' where you find yourself in circles. Tripping on Mushrooms is very much like this. I always find my mind/situation going in circles. Life is a circle. I find circles to be heavily meaningful in life and have been shown again through schooling / growth, personally.

Here is a cool exhibition that was at MoMA a couple of years ago:
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/5