Word: inhabitation
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...medium seems inherently irreligious. But through it, I can latch onto - or into - some version of what the Hopi call "the holy something." Religion is interactive by nature. A message is conveyed to a believer, revealed, perhaps, by a Supreme Being, or manifest in one's surroundings, where spirits inhabit the trees, the rocks, the winds. The believer's life, fundamentally, becomes the response. This jibes rather nicely with the form and function of the Internet. I can, in essence, create my own sacred space. I have access to the precepts, texts, rituals and rules of a religion - for observance...
...Whitehead's main characters, starting but by no means ending with Sutter, are so hip and ironic and jaded that they can't imagine--indeed, they would be embarrassed by and scornful of--the meaning of the novel they inhabit. John Henry Days is a narrative tour de force that astonishes on almost every page, but it generates more glitter and brilliance than warmth...
...this is where everything fell apart. It was as though my appreciation of her work had been briefly resuscitated during the reading, only to be smothered immediately after. I don’t think that Shaughnessy’s poems inhabit an interior voice. Maybe that’s how she prefers to see it, but during this reading I came to the conclusion that there was an audible voice in her poetry which shows itself at its strongest moments. An interior voice conceives itself, but a spoken voice listens to itself, which is exactly what Shaughnessy?...
...London offices that we now inhabit look out on Somerset House, a masterpiece of 18th century design. The art treasures of the Courtauld Institute lie within its ornamented corridors, and its well-proportioned courtyards house handsome offices, restaurants and shops. Canaletto, along with other artistic admirers, painted a view of its sweeping façade along the Thames. When we look across the river at newer, uglier office blocks, we realize Somerset House represents a kind of perfection that succeeding generations did not - could not - improve upon...
Strange as it is, this brings the words full circle. Because the presence of a photograph demands of the text what headlines and ink cannot provide. Pictures give the words an immediacy and a historical presence; no longer disembodied facts, no longer abstract referents, these opinions inhabit particular conjunctions of time and knowledge. As such, they require a response which can only be timely...