{"id":6327,"date":"2005-06-11T18:17:19","date_gmt":"2005-06-11T18:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/11\/the-almost\/"},"modified":"2023-10-06T16:53:41","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T20:53:41","slug":"the-almost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/11\/the-almost\/","title":{"rendered":"The <i>Almost<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span><p>Eight years ago today my mother died; nothing predicted it.&nbsp; Although we never learned the deciding cause (off with causality, off with dogma), it was a defining day that I&#8217;ve mostly come to terms with. <!--more-->The day-marker is like an anniversary; it imposes a peculiar singularity of feeling (a lonely annuity): very few remember the deathdays of ordinary people (even D. and Ph. might not have felt the date had I not brought it up, and Ph. was there). This is not to say, by any means, that my mother was merely ordinary; instead, I like to think of life\u2014perhaps all lives\u2014as small-world extraordinary. The day-marker of death, in its singularity, fails to evoke a broad co-memory; it sparks only a local co-memory, reaching as far as the <i>family<\/i>. And so this is most certainly the echo of a moment felt by my brother and dad, felt by mom&#8217;s siblings. Perhaps a few, close others.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have a whole lot more to say, and I definitely don&#8217;t have the impulse to over-intellectualize the <i>almost<\/i>. Barthes, in <i>Camera Lucida<\/i>, writes about the <i>almost<\/i>\u2014the paradoxical nearness\/distance that confronts him in a collection of photographs of his deceased mother.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t have many photos of my mother, especially from the years immediately before she died. But the few I do possess lend an astounding credibility and accuracy to the experience Barthes describes.&nbsp; Without understanding it in his terms, I was sensing the incompleteness of the image, as I still do, over and over.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to these photographs, sometimes I recognized a region of her face, a certain relation of nose and forehead, the movement of her arms, her hands.&nbsp; I never recognized her except in fragments, which is to say that I missed her <i>being<\/i>, and that therefore I missed her altogether. It was not she, and yet it was no one else.&nbsp; I would have recognized her among thousands of other women, yet I did not &#8220;find&#8221; her.&nbsp; I recognized her differently, not essentially. Photography thereby compelled me to perform a painful labor; straining toward the essence of her identity, I was struggling among images partially true, and therefore totally false.&nbsp; To say, confronted with a certain photograph, &#8220;That&#8217;s almost the way she was!&#8221; was more distressing than to say, confronted with another, &#8220;That&#8217;s not the way she was at all.&#8221;&nbsp; The <i>almost<\/i>: love&#8217;s dreadful regime, but also the dream&#8217;s disappointing status\u2014which is why I hate dreams.&nbsp; For I often dream about her (I dream only about her), but it is never quite my mother: sometimes, in the dream, there is something misplaced, something excessive: for example, something playful or casual\u2014which she never was; or again I <i>know<\/i> it is she, but I do not <i>see<\/i> her features (but we do <i>see<\/i>, in dreams, or do we <i>know<\/i>?): I dream about her, I do not dream <i>her<\/i>.&nbsp; And confronted with the photograph, as in the dream, it is the same effort, the same Sisyphean labor: to reascend, straining toward the essence, to climb back down without ever having seen it, and to begin all over again. 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