10.11.08

The Consonance of Consonants

Posted in Uncategorized at 9:39 am by Miracle ♪♫

We are all aware that doodling is a bored schoolgirl’s activity. But what is doodling when one is no longer a schoolgirl and ultimately un-bored? Ah! Is it the aftermath of a bleak season of the heart? Is it a subconscious desire to return to the innocent little girl that once was, and the yearning to rise above the meandering and interlaced scribbles of life - or a distress signal that one is drowning in them? Is it the underwhelming absence of words or the overwhelming excess of it that the pen is compelled to write nothing but nondescript lines and curves… until a heart fortuitously manifests itself from the gallimaufry of consonants and squiggles?

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…and so I turned to another polybibliogamist who was and forever will be my partner in the consonant business, “Mar… I just realized something while doodling. In order to draw a heart, one must write a curved “M” and then a “V” beneath it… and after that… we can go on writing/talking about its symbolisms and significances.”

The knowing answered, “Mir, this is the only thing I can say: that in every heart of an “M” is a “V”. “M” without the “V” are limbs hanging limp or wings refusing to fly, or feet desperately trying to walk out but end up remaining still, rooted to grievous “V”-less experience… In the case of “V”, regardless of the fact that essentially all of “V” is contained in an “M”, “V” remains what it is: a letter already in flight.

I was left amazed at the poetic precision.

One more thing Mar, a heart is also a leaning, mirrored, upside down “J”.

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