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Title: We Have Already Happened (Essay)
Author : Nebula
Release Date : January 01, 2010
Genre: Reference,Books,
Pages : * pages
Size : 305 KB

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The afternoon we were told that it happened, N. and I bundled into the York Lanes aimlessly. But the incident, a cosmic world apart from the commonplacency of our waking lives, withheld from us the flesh of the story. "The TV is mocking me", said N. in a trembling tone with the abjection of coming face to face with one's own uncanny double. I looked at the television set, its silence, blank stare, its huge eye mocking us with the images of two columns sinking into the bowels of the earth so noiselessly and effortlessly, images which were sequestered, hidden from us in the box of infinite symbols, like an Aleph. Its big fanged screen which seemed to disperse into molecules, millions of tiny circular fiber-optic molecules, each with an assigned color and shade all forming an image, like an impressionist painter's palette, millions and millions of deft touches, dots, skillfully positioned, a seemingly haphazard collage of colors. Technological impressionism. And they beamed these images across the world into every home, shop window, every distant attic, every street corner, wherever there was a television set. These images played and replayed themselves till, long after we saw them, they lingered in our minds, like the spirits of the days gone by which hover and watch over what we breathe and see and do and think with the envy of scorned lovers, their almost ruthless repetition in our minds compelled us to believe in its real-ness, as real as if we had been there when the incident happened. The event: an abstracted, image-based, fiber-optic construction of an incident. Are we to believe that the images that had been fed through our television sets actually did happen? Of course, like Descartes, we can only believe in their validity because we cannot disprove them.