THE INSPIRATION'S PORTRAIT, AND THE PHILOSOPHY WEARING A BLUE OVERALLS SHORT PHILOSOPHICAL TALE Manuel Cappello 2011 - www.manuelcappello.com I was reading a philosophical text,1 and for some days I took notes about my inspirations, with a pencil, beside the printed letters, and then i got involved in rearranging them in regular phrases. I was wrong: i was putting on the paper the six, seven or thirteen words only that were just enough to identify the ideas i had a glimpse of. Instead, i should have descended into the galleries the creative thought had come from, before they became closed again. Notes about new ideas should be taken writing complete phrases only, in the very first moment when you are near the source of the inspiration that still is alive, and the tracking of its background stories is feasible. Inspiration is fleeting, and its portrait cannot be postponed. Understood what to do for saving intuition, here we are, pacing the thought roots on the contrary, in the hallways of this mobile and mysterious labyrinth, that gives itself to our view for a short time. Walking through these caves, we realize the words are no longer inside us and chosen by us, but they come to meet us brought by a coal cart in a tunnel, like an Indiana Jones movie or a Jules Verne book. But where we stand?? May be these rooms are the department where we will meet the philosopy wearing a blue overalls, busy in an attempt to set in motion the metaphysics?
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1 Heidegger, What is Metaphysics? - Italian edition: Heidegger, Che cos'è metafisica, in “Segnavia”, Biblioteca Filosofica, Adelphi 1987, edited by Franco Volpi, Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann. Pagg. 59-77