04-09-2009, 01:05 PM
In re nation-state: fair and illuminating point. Light always is welcome.
From novelist James Lee Burke:
"If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave."
This may be read literally and as a meditation on the singularity of artists, prophets, and others who stand among the divinely mad.
From novelist James Lee Burke:
"If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave."
This may be read literally and as a meditation on the singularity of artists, prophets, and others who stand among the divinely mad.