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Eco-Aesthetics and the Poetry of Longing with Rick Jarow

Deconstructing Yourself

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Can Language Ever Mean Anything?

The yaksha made his request for lovers afflicted by passion can no longer tell the aware from the inert. So in the modern issues of deconstruction, and the question is, can language ever mean anything? It's made of smoke, flame, wind, water, like a cloud. How can that carry a living message? And certain schools say it can't, that words can never point to a truth. They are just things that you have to deal with to get through them or go into utter silence. But here, the aesthetic way is somethi different. It says that those who are camarta, who are deeply afflicted by love, by passion, they don't see a difference between

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