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Introducing
B.O.R.T.
(Book of Replicated Thought)
Comprising Prose/Philosophy by
John
O’Loughlin
Which can be previewed via the
following
brief Centretruths editorial:–
Unlike anything else every
written, and not only one ventures to guess by John O’Loughlin, this
title
appears to 'burn the axial candle’, so to speak, at both ends, coming
'down to
earth' in the first part and going 'up to heaven' in the second,
replicating
the text of the former while diverging from it in terms of an approach
to
structure which is less prosaic than philosophic, in the sense of
combining,
and not for the first time in his oeuvre, aphorisms with maxims in
relation to
a metaphysical mean and overall abstract intent. The aphoristic
material, with
him, is more loosely structured than the maxims, which are hardly
maxims in the
accepted sense of pithy sayings or apophthegms in which wisdom or
higher knowledge
is condensed but, rather, numbered items that follow, in each
sequence, a uniform
structure which is simply thematically modified to suit the thematic
needs of
the occasion or, in any given instance, particular maxim. That, of
course, does
not obtain in the 'down to earth' part which begins this book, in
which the
author took the aphoristic/maximistic material at a less developed
stage of its
structuring and simply endeavoured, with the help of '....', or
omission marks
used in a relatively unorthodox way, to separate one train of thought
from
another, to turn it into something approaching prose, in which a
massive if not
massed approach to text signifies that which is corporeal as opposed,
like the
aphoristic structure, to being comparatively ethereal, and thus
intended (without
irony) for mass consumption – something
one
could not associate with any text conceived with due philosophic
regard to
space and, especially, time. Thus this project strives to appeal, one
might
say, to both lower- and upper-class taste to the extent that it
combines, in
the one book, two dissimilar if not contrary approaches to textual
structure
without, however, unduly departing from its philosophically-oriented grammatical bias and the
affirmation, in
consequence, of a discriminatory upper-case approach (depending on
class
context) to terminology which, to be sure, would tend to partly
contradict or
at least undermine our metaphor concerning the 'candle' being burnt at
'both ends'.
However, while more people might be expected to prefer the 'prose' to
the
'philosophy', irrespective of its grammatical predilection toward a
judicious
use of initial caps, the option on both approaches to textual
presentation not
only brings 'heaven' down to 'earth' but simultaneously ensures that
what appertains
to the former can be transmuted into the latter, transfigured, so to
speak,
with intent to providing the right kind of axial paradigm for any
transcendence
of 'the world' likely to culminate in a heavenly outcome. – A
Centreteuths
Editorial
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