Unexpected thoughts

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

Oscar Wilde

To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time
it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.

Paul Valery

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

W. H. Auden

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What is the question of literature ?

The question of literature cannot be —What is literature?

Since the latter is a question where the interrogative force rests wholly with the —What“ and
where the existence of literature is reduced to the fact that underwrites the analytic task.

To ask —What is literature?“ is to take for granted a by no means incontestable ontology and to range the question of literature along-side other enquiries into the properties and dispositions of determinate beings.

For Blanchot, literature is less a fact than a self-conditioned impossibility. Hence it does not lend itself to the reflective and cognitive question. This holds likewise of philosophy.

Were philosophy to ask itself —What is philosophy?“ as a reflective and cognitive question, it would presuppose the reflective and cognitive character of philosophy and thereby betray phi-
losophy‘s long-standing definition as the interrogation of its own definition.

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Unannounced

"The future has a way of arriving unannounced".

George Will

Realisation of possibility

For Hypertextual, there is no sharp line between Possibility, where conditions may be in the process of development, and the realisation of possibility. If all the conditions for a thing are present, then it will be realised.

For example, something may be considered possible; what does this mean? is this a question of calculating probabilities? or of making an act of will to determine the outcome? In general, Metabologics would say that the answer lies only in understanding the totality of conditions which constitute the transition from possibility to reality and acting accordingly.

The sharp line is rather between unexpected and possibility.