Language and Language beyond
RI Kor
Pen name of TANAKA Akio
Since words can never become the world itself or our lives themselves, it is not impossible to say that they only vaguely trace these things.
Words are never music, nor painting. Words are just words. We talk about music, we talk about painting. We trace the outlines of them, but we are not the things themselves.
In short, words are not material. So, I hesitate to call them spirit. Words have sounds and letters within them. If you write them with a pencil, they remain clearly. But these things somehow feel like appendages of words.
Words are somewhat similar to such material things, but at their deepest level they possess something that transcends material things. Distant memories are vividly brought back to me by words, or through words. Without words, or without reading a poem, the summer festival of my childhood, or the scenery resembling someone else's summer festival, would never have come back to me at this very moment.
The lively pigeon festival in his hometown, which Miya Shuji wrote about in his later years, comes to my mind. The past and the present intertwine, and the future is also faintly visible.
Through words, I think about people's lives. Or rather, their lives come to mind. The words used in this work come into contact with matter and spirit, but they float somewhere in the middle or beyond, unable to fully blend in with them.
I sometimes think that there is something within us that words trace, and that words may be following the trajectory of the soul.
In the first place, I am using words themselves to think about words, which is like a mirror using a mirror to look at itself, and at this point it is beyond my ability to handle.
Perhaps words contain something that transcends words. We may be close to that kind of unknowability.
Sekinan Research Field of Language
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