INTERVAL

The interval between sleeping and thinking is a monument and it cannot be articulated by words. The interval, silence, is articulated by a watering of the eyes, the eye lids which do not open, the clear eye, the glossy eye, the muddled eye. The interval, silence, precludes the feeling; the feeling precludes the articulation. The articulation is the final moment of the interval’s existence, in that the interval, silence, exists as a memory (monument) for some time following its chronological manifestation. The eye waters, or is stuck or glossed, and the initial feeling of the day is presented, the chronological life of the interval coming to an end. Sleep, silence, articulation.

Is it important that sleep defies articulation? The psychoanalysts, the theorists, the Surrealists sought to articulate the abstracted monuments of sleep. To articulate is to define, which is too violent for sleep - vast and rich as a solar storm.

Evolution will lead us away from the vulgar urge to transform everything into language. Language is like the interval, silence, and is tempered if not betrayed by the watering, stuck-shut, glossy or muddled eye.