THE CIRCLE
THE CIRCLE MARRIES THE LINE
What if time is circular not linear?
What if eternity is real and not just
a word drummed up by religion so you
know how long you will rot in hell when
you break one of their rules
What if you keep repeating the exact
same life over & over again? This
would explain déjà vu ditto NDE’s
all uncannily the same
A meaner theory than reincarnation where
at least you are given a new identity upon
your re-entry And doesn’t everyone think
they were once rich famous & brilliant?
Few will tell you they were Hitler
Could this be what Freud was getting at with
the discovery of repetition compulsion: our
un-conscious determination to repeat the story
of our lives right down to marrying the same
man 3x
Dreams would appear to be the telltale sign
showing us how different people in our stories
are actually the same person but in disguise
Yet even seasoned dream-analysts will misread
the signs showing them that: wife #1 is wife #2
therefore wife # 1 is wife #3 (Axiom of Maria)
The most fascinating aspect of this timeascircle
theory is that: 9 out of 10x’s you wake up in the
middle near the beginning or ¾ of the way to the
end of your story Only once every lifetime do you
wake up on the last day Yet you know this day
intimately from all of the repetitions
Dreams also show you your death Most don’t
notice the rest forget by morning A few know
with a clear eyed certainty how the last day will
end and they work on this death-wish with an
existential psychotherapist But there is no cure
Take Anna Karenina Tolstoy wrote the book before
Jung & Freud discovered the un-conscious He was
onto something grasped the circle knew the uroboros
inside-out
At various times in her life Anna has a re-curring dream
& horrifically it unfolds in her final moments before the train
is above her before the train is above her before the train
is above her
So is the first read-through the best? Before you know
something is fishy? Before you look at the man you are
about to marry & feel that you have known him forever?
Or you look at the man you are about to marry & for 46
seconds you have no idea whatsoever who the hell he is
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Let the script revel in tricks & transformations when the
film is broken let it be spliced The Magic Curtain 1971
Stanley Kunitz
Winter 2014
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