Saturday, May 21, 2005

Tear that Shrine

The word “shrine” comes from the Latin “scrinium,” the box that contains a book. If at all you are interested in literature, you cannot but have some books, hence authors, to privately enshrine. But once in a box the book ceases to be read. It is therefore necessary to break the box and free the writing, scriptum, within. Seen in this fashion the real shrine is a shrine being dismantled, and the most pious attitude one can assume is the irreverent destruction of the sacred.