III. A necessary but unfortunate digression

Ignorance; I plead ignorance. I confess that I did not know of Mr. Badiou before the evening I heard him speak.

Do I understand? I will not pretend. I have not read any of his works. The evening stands alone. I kept notes and that is all I have. I hesitated to begin writing since I covertly planned on reading some book by him and pretend I knew, so I bought Being and Event. Since my original intention was to write this article in the next month, I knew I wasn’t going to read his work, though I will down the line. In fact I must. But I have a program in my reading to follow. I’ll put it into the appropriate queue.

My initial mission was to determine meaning from the evening only from experience and yet I waver on this decision. I find another book, Handbook of Inesthetics, and decide to read the first entry on “Art and Philosophy.” I remain conflicted, still wanting to create an artifact just from my experience of the evening and a need to go to a source. In going to a “Source” though, I am filling a need; to be perceived a little less ignorant and therefore one step removed from death.

I refuse to read. Let me stay honest to some mission.

IV. Written at one time or another; or is it one Place or another?