Thursday, November 10, 2005

Simulacrum, simulacra...

Ok, so I really don't have time for this (homework calls...no, it screams...), but this epigram from a reading in Writing Theory is bubbling like a mad witch's brew in my head.

"The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth--it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true." --Ecclesiastes

First, for all those like me who had no clue on God's green earth what a "simulacrum" is, it's an image, a representation, an insubstantial form or semblence of something: trace. Second...what does that mean? Still pondering that one. Third...where in Ecclesiastes is that? Skimmed for it, but no luck. I'm sure my questions will be answered tomorrow, but I've read the darn thing twenty times already trying to unravel it. Thinking is way too much fun. :)

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