Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Validity in Doubting Doubt (or any other created thought.)

Doubt in the mind of the created is created by the mind that creates both the first mind and the doubt itself. There is no actual doubt. The reader sees 'doubt' and knows doubt but does not doubt. Only the created mind doubts. But lingering on the doubt I doubt the created mind. Does it think or feel? I doubt it. Can it even actually doubt if there is no doubt created outside of the created mind's doubt? If there is no doubt to create doubt in the created mind that doubts then there is no doubt and we doubt the created mind altogether.

Characters characterize that charter that chats to the creator and the reader of the created. They are not actual people with actual character. They are words on paper. But they are much more. The created are creators themselves. Or at least the words used to create the created are creators. The words submerge images in the reader's mind. Signifiers, symbols, and hullabaloo. The charter is the disconnect. The characters and their actions are all created but do not create. The words behind them create in the reader's mind. The created have no mind outside of the reader's mind. I doubt the mind of the creator minds that it does not matter to the reader. Or at least I doubt it should.

Barthes killed the author, and I threw roses on the grave and laughed. Birth is pretty and creates. Birth has creators and the created. The birth of the reader comes at the cost of the denial of truth in the created. The truth is the reader. The reader is the creator, but the reader did not create the created. The creator created the created. But remember, the doubt in the created mind of the created is not actual unless the mind of the reader contains the mind of the created and the reader can create doubt in the created's mind that the reader created.

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