Religion, Love, and Death II
My friend Zillia said to me today, “Desire is prayer.”
And I am thinking about this some more: Love is the death of the intellect. I will continue to refute this, because it seems incorrect.
Desire is generated by love. Desire, I would say, is the genesis of the intellect. The intellect maps desire, finding pathways of logic through it, beyond it, out of it, perhaps. Love generates desire, which stimulates the intellect.
Consider the theory of language, the theory of text, of our comprehension of communication, as a model of how the intellect is operates in terms of desire:
“The seam of the two edges, the interstice of bliss, occurs in the volume of the languages, in the uttering, not in the sequence of utterances: not to devour, to gobble, but to graze, to browse scrupulously, to rediscover” (Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text).
More to come.
