The function of theory is… to seduce, to wrest things from their condition, to force them into an over-existence which is incompatible with that of the real.
The function of theory is… to seduce, to wrest things from their condition, to force them into an over-existence which is incompatible with that of the real.
“What is the world? tell, Worldling (if thou know it).
If it be good, why do all ills o’erflow it?
If it be bad, why dost thou like it so?
If it be sweet, how come sit bitter then?
If it be bitter, what bewitcheth men?
If it be friend, why kills it (as a foe)
Vain-minded men that over-love and lust it?
If it be foe, Fondling, how dar’st thou trust it?”
Joshua Sylvester | “Mundus Qualis”