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Seymour
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Date Joined Jan 2002
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| Posted 1/25/2002 6:13 AM (GMT -6) |   | 
A lesson for my pupils on the gaze.
A gloss, if you will, on the gaze, or, a gaze glossed over.
Like a little doll (a pupilla) swinging back and forth from a rearview mirror, it watches you.
So does the surveyor with the yard stick, measure for measure, watches you and your tightly wound cord over your hands. (He watches the days too, measuring them in something like teaspoons). He watches them all, but never speaks, and never interrupts them, never cuts in, never circumcises their deeds. He only makes eye contact. That’s all.
And You Sitting In Your Cab, Laughing. It Laughs Back.
Both of them are mad, the head of the doll, and the surveyor.
That surveyor, that super-looker, that overseer, that bishop.
So here it is, the head of a doll, right on your computer screen.
Even the idea of a screen crosses the idea of a gaze, (crosses the eyes to see what’s right in front of one’s nose).
The screen, a veil, the one who sees without being seen. And shame, knowing your being seen without a veil, naked.
Or
Like a the Cyclops eye of the circumcision. The pupil (a little boy, the pupus orphaned boy).
The doll hangs from a rearview mirror, foreshadowing the judgement of the court. (“The curtain/court is stuck. Fix everything!”)
And what of the mirror and the gaze? The mirror is, strictly speaking invisible, and centered by blindness. At the center of the gaze its own reflection. This is how the doll got its name (it is not the time now to bring up the question of the name, or of the veiled name or screen name, of the blind name which promises sight). The dolls name, the puilla. The pupil was named after this little girls doll because of the reflection in the dolls eye, the eye as mirror or the mirror as eye. At the center of the mirror is the gaze reflected back, something invisible. Just as we need a blind spot to center a vision the sight of sight itself must remain blind to itself, invisible. It is a seeing subject seeing itself. A self-portrait, a confession, done in blindness, groping with hands, trying not to fall, to stay erect, to res-erect with the groping of a Cyclop’s gaze.
Likewise all theological vision must be centered by a blind spot =
Apophatics
The formula of faith is not “I once was blind but now I see.” This is the formula of idol worship, of Pharisees. No. Faith is to say “I once could see but now I’m blind.” Faith is the evidence of things not seen. Faith like Love is blind. Let’s not forget Hope.
Faith, Hope and Love, the three Christian screwdnesses are only seen by the blind, or those pushed away, forced into the dark night of truth.
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