Fabricating is certainly not inventing. Truth or the image of truth? Actual life or imaginative life? Invent: The word has altered in meaning. Strickly, from the Latin Invenire, Inventum, it means "To come upon. In = upon. Venire = to come. Invent. Not to devise or contrive or fabricate but to find that which exists. Perhaps everything that can exist does exist, as Plato would say, in pure form, but perhaps those forms with which we become the most familiar now pass for what we call actual life. The world of everyday experience is a world of redundant form. Form coarsened, cheapened, made easy and comfortable, the hackneyed and the cliched, not what is found but what is lost. Invention then would return to us, forms not killed through too much use. Art does it. But if what can exist does exist, is memory invention or is invention memory?
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