When I started this blog I'd just come out of a very difficult patch and was wanting to reconnect with guidance from times when the road seemed to rise up to meet me rather than hit me upside the head.
In my life there's been a strong current of guidance without complete understanding (hence guidance rather than straight information). The knowledge or experience of recognition comes first. Then I hold the idea for years and years while the meaning develops. Rilke said something about 'loving the question' and that mood is where I live. 'annonyme' is a misspelling of the French word for anonymous, anonyme. anno is Italian for year as in "A.D." the year of our lord. Anon itself has something to do with time in french it seems to mean immediately and in old English it seems to mean later (maybe it was used by royalty to mean "...when I darn well feel like it." When someone says I'll be there presently you kind of get the sense that it might not really be now because they are not presently with you.) Anyway, all of that is in the appeal the misspelling has for me. It also sort of means year name... a promised time whose significance and impact are blurred as yet.
And of course, I love Duchamp and the Societe Anonyme was a part of his panoramic contribution.
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