Tues 9 September. Three weeks since we last met.
Char-Latte Bar has a silent plasma screen showing sport. There’s easy listening music. The staff are pleasant and, though the prices are above average, the café fills up nicely. We occupy the two sofas in the café window.
Gordon’s started reading “Lines: a brief history” by anthropologist Tim Ingold.
We discuss anti-narrative in contemporary practice. The world narrowed when science introduced Perspective, which became the touchstone of western art. Artists looked only in one direction at a time, took in one moment.
Creationists panic – stories from an ancient culture are nonetheless God’s word, therefore scientific truth. If the stories are not factual, it is not that God has told fibs, but that he cannot exist. Others panic because the ferocity of Creationist belief threatens to turn Creationist understanding of science (and politics) mainstream. The immutability of both sides stems from a profound western belief in the authentication of science.
We decide to drink in 4 more cafés, totalling an elegant 12.
