oppositions
ben goertzel
0 is the absence of 1,
1 is the absence of 0
mountains define the valley,
valleys define the mountain
her quietness defines my words,
my words define her quietness
touch creates feeling,
feeling creates touch
And out of 0 and 1 come numbers
And out of mountains and valley come landscape
And out of touch and feeling come skinshowers
And out of quietness and words comes what comes
And then, count
ZERO
frictional creation of splendors
ZERO
N
E
invisible fingers of love nothingness
T
W
ZERO
N
E
amazing feats of breath courage, forms spinning,
combining, love tumbling from not
Quechua vs. Spanish
Man vs. woman
Love vs. hate
confusion vs. clarity
stupidity vs. intelligence
understanding vs. bafflement
childhood vs. adulthood
greed vs. compassion
anger vs. calmness
trees vs. shadows
eleventeen vs. thirty-twelve
penis vs. venus
clitoral vs. littoral
littoral vs. literal
Goofy Sufi vs. Nudist Buddhist
invisible fingers of love vs. illimitable hot pokers of raging doom
never vs. always
right now vs. wait for tonite honey
no right NOW versus honey, please, wait for tonight
teeth of delirium vs. delirium of teeth
marketing slogans vs. joints thick as hot dogs
Long Dong Silver versus the French Corkscrew Twist
Me vs. you vs. me vs. you vs. me vs. you vs. me vs. you again
Imagination vs. reality
imagination building reality vs. reality building imagination
nothing vs. something
nothing breeding something vs. something spawning nothing
nothing breeding something that spawns nothing vs. something,
and on and on
the universe emerges vs. what?
me vs. myself
me vs. myself again
me vs. myself, in a minor key, with pentatonic variations
me vs. myself lusting for you versus yourself
me versus myself lusting for her vs. herself
her winking at me elaborately in the inverted self of the sea
she winks at me seductively vs. i just imagine it
whom i want vs. who wants me
what i want vs. why i want
how i want who i want vs. why i want what i want
Dialectics vs. livalectics
Long lists vs. short sequences
Writing long lists while sitting on the toilet crapping in
Aguas Calientes versus being a normal person
Being normal vs. drinking divine shadow light
Vibrating vs. undulating
expressing vs. impressing
outrospection vs. introjection
surrealism vs. Sir Realism
Silliness vs. 49 minutes of amazing tingling 4play and 33 minutes
of impossible fuck
pornography vs. stenography
Calligraphing runes on your back with my tongue versus
tattooing nothing vs. smearing my shit on the wall in the shapes
of ninja hamsters
vs. vs. versus
this vs. this
ending vs. starting
this vs. shit again
Making a serious point about the interdefinition of opposites, its
role in the emergence of the universe from the void and its
tendency to spark the formation of new structures on an
ongoing ancillary basis as somewhat awkwardly recognized in
hegelian philosophy versus emulating the cosmos itself in its
infinite scribbling absurdity and interpenetration of serious
truthsomethings with ubject ridiculousness and dancing on the
fractal butcher knife edge of sweet and sour reason
Delicious zeros vs. mathematical fragments
Delirium vs. delirium
In vs. out vs. in vs. out vs. in vs. out again
I think I'm done shitting now
End vs. end
P.S.
sanity vs. madness
sex vs. core
dull contentment vs. exciting irritation
garden of nonsense vs. orchard of harmony
Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding vs.
ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind
Success vs. failure
Success as judged by my present self vs. succes as
judged by my future self who will be reading these
words one day and crying or laughing or bored
Success as judged by me vs. success as judged by you vs.
success as judged by the Guardians of Culture (whomever
those are or aren't)
Success as judged by O.J. Simpson's fifteenth genital wart from
the left
Peru vs. US
Hot springs vs. cold winters
Love vs. love again
titties vs. ass crackers
Poetry vs. poetry vs. this