Page from Enormous Smallness by Matthew Burgess

The man-self-made man.

The shape of the words before their comprehension, the nothing before the something.

Lucas pinduca
2 min readMar 1, 2024

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Not to want to say I can not understand you.
This is because the truth suffers from too much analysis and you exceed the limit of my meaning.
Therefore I feel dizzy with what I didn’t say, my inner voice continually screams: you look at another person and see a poorly made circle, simply because you cannot tolerate what is not equal!
As we have already glimpsed and will continue to discover, Truth follows social media*, as sure as use follows invention. Can we expand our awareness beyond the perceived limitations of our person?

Not to know what you want to say when you say:

To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. — E.E. Cummings

Not to be able to say what I think you want to tell, and never stop saying. Many people think or believe they feel. Anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not can be taught to feel. Why? Because whenever you think or you believe or know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody but yourself.[1] Better tell: Otherness!

“When I don’t understand, I like to say nothing.” Sophocles, a thousand years ago, said. The real majority do not say what they mean — with or without ulterior motives (maximization of the virtual world?). The result is that those who socialize will have to make a lot of effort (mentally) and face many conflicts to remain genuine or become hypocrites, surrendering to the behavior of the thinking masses. Those who want to remain genuine may therefore prefer not to socialize.

* For Jarrell (1960, p. 367;368), the Media’s deceptive fabrication of reality contrasts Art’s fictional depiction in an oxymoronic clash for the public’s attention.

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Lucas pinduca
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