Brian’s Comments (group member since Sep 06, 2007)

Brian’s comments from the Georges Perec's "Life: A User's Manual" group.

Today is June 23. And tonight at 8:00 is the day and time that matters in User's Manual.

A lot of people misinterpret all nihilism as a negative or cycnical approach to life and to the cosmos. Those people are usually god-fearing and think that anything that denies or questions the existence of higher powers is inherently cynical. But with "Life: A User's Manual" (LAUM) I sense that Georges perec is approaching nihilism as a very positive, creative force of being. LAUM accepts our essential nothingness, but revels in the process that takes place between the birth nothing and the death nothing - we are able to exercise an exuberant free will bouncing around within the framework of those two events to create the puzzles and layers and collections - the basement of LUAM as subconscious, populating our self, which is essentially nothing, with survival gear - food, not for, but of thought. Go places, paint a picture, adhere the picture to wood, cut it apart into a puzzle, assemble the puzzle, reconstitute the puzzle into a whole and make it as perfect as to be unkown as ever having been a puzzle, dissolve the painting until there is no evidence of the painting. Nothing to nothing is very much something.