Lightness

Saturday, March 20, 2010

I chose this image for my conception of the idea "lightness" because of the weightless manner that it instills upon me. Calvino has taught us that in the teaching of what we perceive as "lightness" is achieved by "subtracting the weight" (p.3) whether that be from literature or language itself. The idea of lightening up a story or a myth for that matter, entails the use of this concept insofar as the teacher, entrusting within themselves this idea of fluidity and motion; weightlessness if you will, only to perpetuate the idea of lightness, but as well to take the world at face value, for only in that instance can we achieve this weightless like manner about ourselves, wherein the images and allegorical rhetoric that is found within a narrative, can be perceived as lighter than air.