As I was reading Chapter 9 of DTS, there was a feeling that “I†was separate from the contents of the chapter, “I†was trying to make sense of what was “real-ly†being said about being in the present… until I reached the sentence “To be in the present means to be caught up in this steady flow – this presenting†(p.76). For a fraction of a second I felt myself been caught up in the steady flow of this sentence and this sense of division, the sense of me being ‘here’ and the contents of the chapter being ‘there‘, as something to be understood, dissolved… ‘This presenting’ pointed to a flow that apparently made impossible for the ‘I’ to stand still trying to make sense of what was ‘there’. So ‘- this presenting’ came to me as a horse galloping and inviting me to ride in it and flow with the text!
I’m not sure if this has anything to do with the discussion going on about being in the present, or about being present. But at least it made clear again how much language is important in shaping our experience, our experience of time… does that make sense?
Marcia
