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Anand Bose, Glyph Agog In 7 Ecclesia Street, Time: 8 AM
On James Joyce
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From: Anand Bose To: Ellopos
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:34:50 -0000IT'S A WONDER to me, as to why I am using this title! Yes, words are the stirrings of consciousness, the symbols of representation; living with Joyce in the vast of expanse of his imagination is life beyond. The trickles of thought which are fantasies for normal minds are realities, which live, in the inner mind. In that sense- 'Joyce' represents an epic of living. Culture becomes reified abstracts, which flood into the individuality of 'ordinariness', recreating the world of the 'fantastic' in being human. The body becomes a castle of counts and countesses who throng into the throne of desire.
I have used the Joycean philosophy of the 'glossia' and I have taken 'glyph' from hieroglyphics. 'Agog' would mean the excited state of the body in being responsive. This process of thinking, I have developed from Joyce, is the outcome of my 'psychical' interaction and expansion of consciousness with words. 'Heiro' would refer to being sacred and being sacred would signify a separateness, reverence and worship. The sign inherent in 'heiro' becomes sanctified. Being sanctified 'assumes' the approbation of being 'sanctioned'.
The quality of being sanctioned drove me into a state of wild excitement as I immersed myself into a 'calypso' in 7 Eccles street. I became feverish with the realisation that I could dethrone the pyramid from the hierarchy and in its place put the body in agog with a transforming glyph. This is my most personal and intimate experience with the great writer Joyce. Instead of 7 Eccles Street, I have used 7 Ecclesia Street to represent the 'choice to sanction rather than be sanctioned'.
Reference: James Joyce, A portrait of the artist as a young man
Cf. Goethe on Tragedy (in German) | Aristotle Anthology | Rilke, Letter to a Young Poet | Plato, Whom are we talking to? | Kierkegaard, My work as an author | Emerson, Self-knowledge | Gibson - McRury, Discovering one's face | Emerson, We differ in art, not in wisdom
