Resonance

The purpose of learning to write is to understand how language fails. Language fails to express those things that are contrary to its nature. Excepting those of us who can experience synesthetic reactions, language cannot create a duplicate of the thing it describes. A language cannot do anything without people, frankly, but that is separate from the point. Language cant tell us how any person among us feels, so much as it can tell us how a society feels about an idea, or more precisely, a word. Part of the art of writing is misusing the social construct of language to create a personal experience, and then share it with your audience. The issue with having an audience is that you assume a passive and static group who is unable to or unwilling to interact. Or does it? Perhaps that is an assumption on my part. I dont think beyond the point of consumption, because that is not how we all work: we consume and shit, but never digest. The issue with using a social artifact to create a personal artifact, which becomes a social artifact, is just that: it is a personal social act, and so personal expression fails to express those things that are contrary to its nature, expression artifacts of social importance or relevance. The exception to this is personal social expression artifacts that are resonant, resonant being the quality of the ability to perform an internal transderivational search and come up with a relevant application of the expression artifact that is encountered. Things that have the greatest relevance are retroactively referred to as parables, or metaphors, or in some unfortunate instances, allegories. These things are relevant because we can add them to our ad hoc instruction manual for life. This does make it difficult for non verbal art to have resonance, and even more so for non-narrative art, because non-narrative art is a comment, not an instruction, and so while it is not so pretentious, nothing ventured nothing gained, a well placed comment can never live up to a well received instruction.