Try a secret
If there were secrets do they need to be secrets?
If a secret does not need to be a secret it will not be a secret anymore. I believe in secrets which is why I do not try to reveal them. Is this why magicians never reveal their tricks? Magicians’ tricks are their reality. Moreover, they are their tools to manufacture reality (and not just someone else’s). Are they tricks at all?
However, yes, I wonder what the tricks of life are, too. — Love? Love is just part of it. I dared to look further. Until I stopped looking.
Once you look through and you see clearly what is going on, you see what was hidden behind or underneath. You don’t see what there was. You see something new.
It’s like you start loving another man or woman once you begin to understand the one in front of you. Maybe this is what LaBute meant when he said one should not ask why when “what” is in front of oneself?
There are secrets. Do we need to reveal them? Or should we just try not to try?
“You are off the edge of the map, mate. Here there be monsters!”
Where are the maps that show us how to approach the secrets of life?
I guess, I like monsters.
What is the secret? Can you keep it?
[This entry was originally posted 2008-05-28. It was re-done, updated, and expanded 2008-06-07.]
June 8th, 2008 at 0:34
You probably know this one ;-)
In other words, it’s also a bit like the story of the man who — when he was asked why he constantly was clapping his hands — answered: “I do it to scare away the elephants.” However, nobody could see or hear one.
One might think that secrets are monsters too easily scared away by calling them “secrets”. But, I think they are not. Secrets are just their slime which they leave us as a sign.