Twentieth Series on the Moral Problem in Stoic Philosophy

Axiom: "Divination grounds ethics." (143)

"Divination is, in the most general sense, the art of surfaces, lines, and singular points appearing on the surface." (143) The most basic form of language comprehension is divination, the orientation of data point resulting from the event back into sense. E.g. The big bang emitted stars, and then, "Can you see the Big Dipper?" etc. This sense of sense is the basis for the I-Ching, Jung's schema of psychoanalysis, etc. It posits the idea that there are elements, elemental structures to the formation of reality, and leaves it to us to be the "cryptographer", to "read the folds of the soul", to decipher the hieroglyphs. (cf. The Fold)

The fulcrum of thought and difference: object = x = das ding == identification = paradox. (145)

Expression is "enveloped" in representation. (145) Expression is the means by which we unfurl the thread tangled on the spool (i.e. by spinning the gyre). Representation is a boundary or limit ("lining or hem") to the will to power (Aion) that left undisciplined, behaves schizophrenically.

"The sage waits for the event, that is to say, understands the pure event in its eternal truth, independently of its spatio-temoral actualizations, as something eternally yet-to-come and always already passed according to the line of the Aion. But, at the same time, the sage also wills the embodiement and the actualization of the pure incorporeal event in a state of affairs and in his or her own body and flesh." (146)

When D says the sage "selects" the event, he means that insofar as the sage is a series, other series come up through him the way play-dough gets pressed through a "spaghetti"-maker. It is like one series is flying through a buttonhole, or quilting point, and the common factors are selected by the series which is that sage (in the most immediate sense, think of the changed structure of the lips as raw sound is transformed into articulate speech). So in a sense, when reggae DJs refer to the DJ as the selector, perhaps this is what they mean.