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Will words always be enough? Will they encompass everything? No, they will not. For as JosĂŠ Saramago wrote: âDespite everything you can say, and despite everything we all say, there will always be a word missing.â Thus, we arrive at the realization that language, no matter how expansive, and eloquence, no matter how refined, remains incapable of fully containing all that one feels or perceives.
In another context, AnaĂŻs Nin writes: âI love your silences; they are like mine. You are the only being before whom I am not distressed by my own silences. You have a vehement silence; one feels it is charged with essences. It is a strangely alive silence, like a trap open over a well, from which one can hear the secret murmur of the earth itself.â
Perhaps silence is the only language through which our being speaks with complete sincerityâthe meaning that has not yet been touched by language, nor exposed by intention, nor confined within the limits of words. Within it, we stand as we truly are, freed from the need to explain ourselves and liberated from the inadequacies of expression. Words, however precise, remain attempts to approach meaning; silence, in its rarest moments, may be meaning itself.
Nightbirds (Andy Milligan, 1970)
Anna Karina in Le Petit Soldat (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
Jean-Luc Godard in Room 666 (1982) dir. Wim Wenders
âI am a stranger to myself, so strange that when I hear my tongue speaks it surprises my ear, and maybe I see my laughing inner self,crying ,fighting,frightened. So my being admires it self, and my soul wonders to my soul, but I remain unknown, hidden and submerged by the mist, covered by the silenceâ -Khalil Gibran
Appassionata (1974)
Circulation within the Skull
ph. Danko Maksimovic - Bochum, Germany 92024)
Film: Kodak Portra 800
Eduard GĂźbelin. Nepal, Patan, circa 1977.
Lena Olin + Daniel Day-Lewis in The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
I long for the day we sleep side by side, skin against skin, bone against bone; a completeness that dissolves the border between âIâ and âyouâ without erasing it. That bodily, existential entwining which denies distance, and turns distance itself into another name for closeness.
What sustains my restraint, what lets me wear the mask of stillness, are those sudden tremors that strip me without warning: our chaos folded into a single home, a system that ceases to be a system and descends into layers of mutual intrusionâeach of us rewriting the otherâs order, becoming simpler, or more intricate, in a vanishing kind of ecstasy.
Our smallest details crash into me, one after another; cups that refuse their place, books open at the middle of thought, clothes neither surrendered nor properly keptâeverything slipping away from its first logic into another, governed not by order, but by a silent complicity between two existences that have chosen to remain together, simply.
You, who makes me less definable. in this expanse no longer named a home, neither of us imposes form upon the other. We seep into each otherâs habits as breath passes between body and air, until disorder becomes harmony, as though clay were shaped between familiar hands that do not command, only recreate. Chaos sheds its strangeness and becomes a shared structure of being. What was separate reveals itself as a postponed possibility of this interlacing.
There is no longer âIâ and âyou,â as language once insistedâonly a single expanse holding two pulses learning to remain without devouring, to differ without breaking.
In this closeness, the body forgets rest and turns toward the erasure of distance itself. I do not ask for you as presence, but as something that consumes me to the edge of breath. We no longer move toward each other, but toward the collapse of what separates usâthe unmaking of definition, the trembling of every idea of independence under contact.
A slow undoing that does not resemble falling, but absorption; one dissolving into the other as though surrender came before motion. Borders rewritten from within until they forget why they existed at all. I do not seek closeness that can be measuredâI seek the moment where nearness itself ceases to name anything. I step out of its grammar entirely, until the distinction between us becomes only a delayed illusion, already vanishing at the instant of its becoming.