Water as Metaphor

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Perpetual Relation

Roni Horn spent time on the Thames writing what became Saying Water—a forty-minute monologue on water as identity, as verb, as entrance to not-being.

"Water is the master verb," she writes. "An act of perpetual relation." Water is not so much a substance as a thing whose identity is based on its relation to other things. Most of what you see when you look at water is light reflection. The Thames has the highest rate of suicides of any urban river. A soft entrance to not being.

The water in the Panke today is not the water that was there yesterday. But it is the Panke.

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• Lighting the same fire — identity, having something again that is and isn't the same
• What metaphor does — Graham Harman, allure, what withdraws

Or drift elsewhere:

• Walking the Panke — the river, what water carries
• On diaspora — displacement, the star khan