The living fiction of us

---You cannot step into the same river twice. There is an implied scenario, though, where the act of stepping is presupposed as antedating the river. In its fuller implication, Heraclitus' aphorism cannot admit the possibility of a position before the step into the river, that is, a foothold outside the flow. The "before" is already part of the flow. What it restricts, thus, is the provision of any external vantage point from which to observe the flow. I am not external to the river, I am with it, and thus cannot really see where I am except as against mobility itself. The assertion ''I am here, now'' is possible only in its negative form, but a form which must also negate itself. The Now is our only ontological possibility, but since always moving, is also the realm of our ontological impossibility.

---The living fiction of us as the locus of the authorial real. The living moment of speech, in its very unfolding materiality, has no room for doubt. It is structured immediately by its full life as intent. Telekinesis is the fantasy equivalent of the seamless intersection of the material and the semiotic, matter and mind in unison of execution, perfect marriage of intent and event.

---Concepts are difficult not because of some difficulty related to individual skill of reading or to the clarity of exposition. Understanding requires belief. This faith in concepts as graspable, self evident substances or content is disconcerting. Concepts are not transparent logico-semantic atoms. They are essentially essenceless. The difficulty is indigenous, so much so that the difficulty of this difficulty is included in the difficulty.