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What now?
Have they nailed you to the registry?
Is that you under the Florida bridge?
Is that today’s tomb
In which you lie wrapped in grief
Waiting for the huge rock of words
To be pushed aside
By angels?
Reality
is obscure and confusing. Writing should not imitate reality with
regard to these attributes. Therefore I will begin with some
definitions.
One:Scripture.For the purposes of this editorial, Scripture will mean any text used
by established authorities to justify and maintain the current
patterns of decision-making and resource distribution in a society.
Two:Anti-Scripture. By anti-Scripture I mean any text that seeks to clear a space in
which people are liberated from the mandates and preconceptions imposed by Scripture.
Both of these definitions are ones I made up. Therefore they shouldn't be
taken too seriously. God knows they're not Scripture. The first
definition, the one on Scripture, does I think express at least one
aspect of the meaning of the term as it was used by Michael De
Certeau in an essay he wrote, called “The Scriptural Economy.”
The second definition I made up out of thin air. In general this
editorial was inspired by de Certeau's essay, but it would not be
fair to hold him accountable for what I've done with it.