Nothing In The Way She Moves

Just as powerlessness is the key to power. Nothing is the key to everything.

Let's take it back to King Lear.

Lear asks Cordelia what she can promise him to surpass the vaccuous promises of her sisters.

At first Cordelia is silent.

Silence is a form of nothingness isn't it?

 
Finally she breaks the silence and replies:

"Nothing, my lord"

"Nothing?"responds Lear in shock.

"Nothing" affirms Cordelia.

"Nothing will come of nothing" responds Lear.

And a few centuries later Billy Preston sings "nothing times nothing is nothing"

And in the world of mathematics perhaps that is true and thus we have one of the great dogmatisms of multiplication.

This is why I prefer literature to trigonometry and words to numbers.

The entire tragedy of King Lear came from the "nothing' that Cordela promised to her father. Something most certainly came from nothing as it always does.

I started typing this entry with virtually nothing on my mind and literally nothing on this page

and already we are here where all the roads that were not travelled meeet all the lives and ideas that didn't come into existence...all the music still unsung...all the grandchildren still unborn...all the possible elements of chemistry, organic as well as interpersonal, that have never combined...all of our hopes unrealized and our fears avoided.

And when we step out of that realm, the massive realm of the imagination, we step into the limited world of fact.

The presidency of JHillary Clintongoes down as a nothing yet it produced the presidency of Donald Trump  and the "facts" of the Donald presidency that have led us to our current valley of tears.

Perhaps nothing is a synonym for creativity.

Even in the void of rejection, we begin to create the anti-thesis of that rejection.

In other words, there is a right and a wrong in this and every election.

whomever we reject will offer us nothing

And that's really something.