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OPEN LETTER: DISCLOSURE AND CONJURANCE, BY TOM SPANBAUER

29 May 2015|

“WE MUST LOOK INWARD AT THE WILDERNESS.”


I’m always writing things down on slips of paper. One day, I found this quotation on a slip of paper laying on my writing desk. The problem with the quote I’m about to give you is that I have no idea where I found it. So blessed be the person who said this. If any of you out there recognize this quote please tell me.

Quote: “Heidigger coined the idea of disclosure. Our highest dignity as human beings, what really sets us apart from everything else in the universe is our capacity to disclose new worlds. To open up to new possibilities. To capture something that we’re not used to thinking about. That is the only way that things show themselves when all the conditions of skill and all the relation between them are possible. And suddenly there is the experience of things opening up, a space of possibilities opening up, a way of inhabiting the world opening up. And it’s not like it was there all along, it’s not like the world of jazz music was somewhere there in the middle ages, say, or in the Greek world, just waiting to be discovered. It was something that had to have a space provided for it.”

I chose this quote because I’ve never really heard it put so well how I feel when I write. There’s something out there that I’m trying to get to. I don’t really know what it is, but I know it’s big and I know it’s out there and it’s waiting to be discovered. The feeling is of a tide, something surging under me, in me, any moment I will be in the sweet spot and I’ll be flying.

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