Tracing a Dust Trail: Reflections on Paolo Icasas’ Dust Heavier Than A Mountain
If we were to discuss the tiers of loads that people carry, we wouldn’t reach consensus. How do you categorize what troubles a little, troubles more, and troubles most? How do you quantify that which makes one suffer a little, suffer more, and suffer most? What makes one cry—shed a tear, and weep dry? But I think we can agree that the weight is heavier if it were your own, or it’s somebody’s you’ve learned to own, or have taught yourself to own. For ownership gives weight to things. Ownership multiplies the weight of things. Ownership puts the self in things, and the self gives that weight authority, and authority gives these intangible things a pseudo-tangible shadow that engulfs the self.
Text excerpt: Marionne Contreras
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