THE PROBLEM OF GNOSTIC TRANSLATION

there are lots of ways to punch through these solipsistic sorrows ... each I suppose of haymaker potency ... but each of a different type ... I know four such methods of translation ... let me mention one ... see how lonely you might be in the middle of the night at your wide desk trying to figure out which universal made the most sense ... and never having done it suddenly asking yourself what the hell is it you've been doing all this time ... turning then to the walls of books that surround you you find you must agree ... nothing much ... how else otherwise to explain all the books but as the best of friends distilled to keep you company as you wait on failure ... failing to blaze a trail of your own you listen to the stories of those who have ... all the meantime still trying to tell the one of your own ... translation rejoining the stream of discourse ... the discourse of meaning ... what it means and what you mean to do about it ... what we have meant and have done about it ... the translation of universal to particular ... the translation of thought to action