12019-03-04T00:08:45+00:00Paul A. Harris0462def817acd13db43634107b67e5f0f737f3f121plain2019-03-04T00:08:45+00:00Paul A. Harris0462def817acd13db43634107b67e5f0f737f3f1Mortal human life is lived as a suspended sentence: we know we are sentenced to die but we usually do not know when or how. Similarly, stone stacks stay standing in a state of sustained caesura. Persisting in a prolonged pause, they hover precariously between existing and ceasing to exist, between presence in space and absence in time. This composition pays homage to these qualities by suspending the titular letters above a stack serving a suspended sentence. The word stack of the first lines may collapse through the ellipsis that suspends the sentence's progress; the sentence instead ends on the note of disbelief or denial. "Suspended in disbelief" of course echoes Samuel Taylor Coleridge's phrase "a willing suspension of disbelief," referring to the necessary choice by a reader of literature to 'suspend disbelief' in the world created on the page. The same double-think obtains with respect to our need to treat the reality that our life is haunted by a death sentence as a fiction.
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