There is no-one,
who, in the awareness of his last chance to react, cannot place the true
sense of himself in one single impression, everything, whole, from the
very beginning; scattered pictures, to be re-assembled and re-mounted
in credible sequences, throng, incoherently, without any apparent meaning
and content on reaching the crossroads.
What is about to take place is bonded to
the previous levels of daily life that is worn out and to be burnt. Tomorrow
spins, today, onto the grid of components, which have already been covered.
Re-composition and harmonious reduction is entrusted to the dreams of
the long nocturnal wakes. Yet this takes place in some more remote sphere,
long before self-awareness.
History is already another sighting!
The infinitely small to be fastened and fixed in the infinite immensity
of possible narrations. Yet all possible options are lost in the dimensions
that reach beyond the limits.
And dark and undefined appears the point in which what has been and what
is to be is summarized in one single moment.
Reflecting on the possibilities of a system of acquisitions to be perceived
and using a concrete reconstruction of ourselves, Marc Bloch believes
that "... independently of any possible application to practical
conduct, history will have the right to claim its place among the forms
of knowledge truly worthy of effort, only if it allows us a rational classification
and progressive intelligibility, rather than simple enumeration, without
connections and almost without limits".
But we know that intelligibilities, which
develop on planes of progressive rationalities become diluted until they
fade completely into the emotional mixtures and retained clear pleasures
of the present. Images of time are unable to find sufficient impression
to be returned to individual instincts, when moving in the present and
pushing ahead.
Rational constructions of historiography, built to explain, understand,
more often to justify or condemn, cannot withstand the blow of the tides,
which advance and retreat in prey to the movement of spaces scanned by
time.
Interpretation and hypothesis feed in the helicoidal pauses of movement.
Graphs of probabilities and combinations flourish like roots climbing
the abandoned walls of joys and suffered woes. Professional experts vanish
at the first signs of something new, which appears long before the explosive
assault of jumbled hordes of question marks and exclamation marks.
In the present facing the direction of the becoming that transforms and
envelops development, the rigor of the method, erudite wisdom, objectivity
of human science, geometric symmetry of value symbols and evaluations
of direction fall apart.
Critical judgment cannot survive short seasons; everything melts during
development like incandescent material that solidifies once again, in
new forms and altered judgments.
But in the being of all of us there dwells the starting point of memory'
creations, like at the bottom of a dreamlike representation; in every
sense, as if reflected from our conscience, in the depths of feeling and
passion, whistling like winds in sunny deserts and unexplored undergrowth.
Narrating time only when it is already complete
or when it is happening is dissatisfying, as equally incomprehensible
would appear he who concealed his face when addressing his travelling
companion, to hide the distance of his own proximity to him.
Presence is always individual, a singular
moment, active in the shattering of critical judgement, like the clips
that piece fragments of volatile intuitions and days of awareness back
together again.
Collectively, being there is utopia, caressed in fragments and divided
in the depths of warm tonal moods, to be recomposed in the compulsive
fascination of the clips.
For a Clips History. Precisely.
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