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The Distancing of Events
Distance, as interposed space-time, allows us to observe the events which are ahead of our understanding and can only be understood from the viewpoint of somebody who moves away as an urgent action that attempts to measure internal time. In this process of distancing we contemplate the point of depar- ture moving towards a divergent landscape that flees without stopping, with the only certainty that wandering and moving away is the sense.
In this journey, uncertainty accompanies us to where memory
is worn and shows a past reincarnated in a veiled phantom. It is then that we must urgently graft that image onto ourselves before the amnesia of the future dislodges the memory and prevents us from following the path where we are only concerned with the ordering of correspondences.
Once again, a feeling of death seeps into that impulse, like an irreversible force that dissolves custom and forces us to reorder habits. In the end, the experiences lived through occupy their place in existence and show their meaning. On returning once again to the point of departure, a fresh anticipation heralds our need to move away again.
Written in Tilburg, 15 October 1997.
First published in Fernando Sinaga, Doble Inverso, Diputación de Granada, Granada, 1998.
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