Cosmic Edges

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It gives you the creeps

It gives you the creeps

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Emmalea Russo
Jul 22, 2023
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It gives you the creeps
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“For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.” (Corinthians 13:12)

Through a Glass Darkly, Ingmar Bergman, 1961.

text is tissue, a textile spun
over—from reality
how do we perceive the weaves, materials, architectonics, mistake image for actuality—-for image—-for—-
how does one over-code, inform, (un)lock and leash—the other?
Nietzsche says without art, we’d kill ourselves from too much reality
gunning for paradise, though once there: how to bear what’s bared?
beyond inebriating, eternity’s a heady high
that purgatory preps us for
in more manageable capsules, good art lets us swallow, see, reality
differently and thus, can be true
shines the woven split between truth
and actuality
hell is all image, imitations
of paradise—-
so it’s hard to see hell
until we get to heaven
and even then—-
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