Quickness

Saturday, March 20, 2010

This image to me conveyed the concept of "quickness" insofar as to say that if one looks a spiral pattern, it has an origin that is traceable to one solitary movement, one point on which to rotate. The initial moment or movement of the trace allows for the cycle to be repeated over and over. Much like literature having origins that quickly gravitate throughout time...Starting of course with the oral tradition of the Native Americans then to scribing from monks in monasteries, to finally the invention of the printing press, that to me is quickness, because only through the expedience of time, does the language of man truly become a staple. Calvino tell us that "literature would never have existed if some human beings had not been strongly inclined to introversion, discontented with the world as it is, inclined to forget themselves for hours and days on end and to fix their gaze on immobility of silent words". (p. 52) I believe what Calvino is trying to say here is that if humans would not have taken time out their lives to record what was going on around them, we may never would have some of the great political satire or memoirs we have today.