To my readers

In reading a verse, in listening to music, in watching a play one shows one's artistry. Yes, spectators are artists, too! These artists do not refer back the art presented to something already inside them. Rather, they create themselves in appreciating an artwork - they grow. The reader does not project himself on the words he is reading, in desperation to find himself in these words. Meaning is not reflected by a mirror. Instead, he recoils himself, to detect in these words, something into which he wants to become - he looks for the foreign, the alien, the strange, the unexplored, like a warrior, like a cultivator. He plays with the signifiers, and does not so much grope at the abstract signified. The listener does not play a tune over and over again only to enjoy his own stagnant passions - for these are not passions if they are stripped of their vibrancy. Music is not opium, not auto-stimulation, at least in this sense. Art is not meant to make its consumer "be at home" in his world. Quite the opposite.