Relative Truth
"The truth you speak has no past and no future/ It is and that's all it needs to be..." (Bach). In Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim, Jim must release his notions of perfection in order to begin his “downward path” toward truth. Before Jim can descend into a heightened realm of truth and existence, he must let go of his need for perfection. Only then can he see the nature of truth in its enigmatic beauty. The chaos of Jim’s life has no order until Jim realizes that the chaos has an order all itself, that the darkness glows illuminous, and that truth can be known only in unknowing. Erasing a drawing means losing a picture, but at the same time it means leaving a blank page where anything can take shape, a page full of possibility and mystery, where anything can happen. The world Jim discovers once he “erases” his notions of perfection contains the same elements of possibility and mystery. Jim’s submission to this world
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Approximate Word count = 631
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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