626
1666
12
and to which an actual map was designed in 1678 by M. Johanne Herbinius
in his Dissertationes De Admirandis Mundi Cataractis, Aestus Maris Reflui
Paradiso. With such cartographical perfection in mind, our erratic idealisms and
concomitant representational compulsions are a finishing school of self-assurance.
Hence, the rapidity of our odious sense of well-versed superiority over those termites, flies, cockroaches and Platyhelminth parasitic trematodes that only enrich
our disgust played out in the classification of Others. This contradictory nature has
been summed up in the formation of the United States, with its perplexing celebration of freedom for all but those deemed to be slaves. Aristotle’s Greece suffered
from the first blatant inkling of this paradox that benights our otherwise sacrosanct
pledges, accrues rust and irreligion on statues of liberty, records our massacres with
the historian’s fated perpetuity, learning pain and more pain; and disseminates the
bipolarities throughout every vista, between picture postcards and prisons.
12 A Discourse of the Terrestrial Paradise Aiming at a More Probable Discovery of the True
Situation of That Happy Place of Our First Parents Habitation, Printed by James Flesher, London
1666.
Fig. 66.3 Near Vilnius (Lithuania) where 100,000 Jews were shot by the Nazis in 1941, Paneriai
Massacre, photographer unknown. (Public Domain)
66 Mismatches
1666
12
and to which an actual map was designed in 1678 by M. Johanne Herbinius
in his Dissertationes De Admirandis Mundi Cataractis, Aestus Maris Reflui
Paradiso. With such cartographical perfection in mind, our erratic idealisms and
concomitant representational compulsions are a finishing school of self-assurance.
Hence, the rapidity of our odious sense of well-versed superiority over those termites, flies, cockroaches and Platyhelminth parasitic trematodes that only enrich
our disgust played out in the classification of Others. This contradictory nature has
been summed up in the formation of the United States, with its perplexing celebration of freedom for all but those deemed to be slaves. Aristotle’s Greece suffered
from the first blatant inkling of this paradox that benights our otherwise sacrosanct
pledges, accrues rust and irreligion on statues of liberty, records our massacres with
the historian’s fated perpetuity, learning pain and more pain; and disseminates the
bipolarities throughout every vista, between picture postcards and prisons.
12 A Discourse of the Terrestrial Paradise Aiming at a More Probable Discovery of the True
Situation of That Happy Place of Our First Parents Habitation, Printed by James Flesher, London
1666.
Fig. 66.3 Near Vilnius (Lithuania) where 100,000 Jews were shot by the Nazis in 1941, Paneriai
Massacre, photographer unknown. (Public Domain)
66 Mismatches