"Pathology is a relatively easy thing to discuss, health is
very difficult. This, of course, is one of the reasons why there is
such a thing as the sacred, and why the sacred is difficult to talk
about, because the sacred is peculiarly related to the healthy. One
does not like to disturb the sacred, for in general, to talk about
something changes it, and perhaps will turn it into a pathology." —
Gregory Bateson
"… an elevated mayhem… a bedlam of study…" — Will Alexander
Last summer, hitching back to the forest, I got a lift from a
guy who once saw Neil Young perform live. He told me “people came out
of that concert better people than when they went in.” Watching this video
I knew it was true. The audience shots are unbelievable: invisible
people crossing over, imaginary, innocent, half-outlaw, half-detectivos.
These are the kind of people I love, and I watch them from a distance,
though I haven’t yet learnt to talk to them from a distance. They are
the witnesses I keep thinking about and try to write about. I see them
as the kind of being that will exist right up to the final moments of
life on the planet. They will outlive the palace officials and the
gallery owners and the judges.
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