Interview with Joan Gordon
Context: There’s simultaneously something rigorous and something playful in genre. It’s about the positing of something impossible—whether not-yet-possible or never-possible—and then taking that impossibility and granting it its own terms and systematicity. It’s carnivalesque in its impossibility and overturning of reality, but it’s rationalist in that it pretends it is real. And it’s that second element which I think those who dip their toes in the SF pond so often forget. They think sf is “about” analogies, and metaphors, and so on. I refute that—I think that those are inevitable components, but it’s the surrendering to the impossible, the weird, that characterizes genre. Those flirting with SF don’t surrender to it; they distance themselves from it, and have a neon sub-text saying, “It’s okay, this isn’t really about spaceships or aliens, it’s about real life,” not understanding that it can be both, and would do the latter better if it was serious about the former.
“Possible impossibility emerges from an impossible possibility, or possibly, impossible possibility blooms from the impossibly possible impossibility.”
Possibility http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/possibility-3/
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poet, writer, and businessman 1959Related quotes
“Death is the possibility of the absolute impossibility of Dasein.”
Der Tod ist die Möglichkeit der schlechthinnigen Daseinsunmöglichkeit.
Macquarrie & Robinson translation
Being and Time (1927)
“To understand possible means to understand impossible.”
Understanding http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/understanding-4/
From the poems written in English
“It's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems.”
Source: Dear John
“All things are possible until they are proven impossible.”
“Even the impossible becomes possible through devotion.”
[Swami Tapasyananda, Swami Nikhilananda, Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations, 229]