The first 47 pages of "Everyday" were very thought provoking. There were actually a bunch of things, or quotes I thought of using in my blog. There were many great descriptions of what each individual "thought" everyday life was; however, I think Maurice Blanchot in his Everyday Speech from 1962 said it best on page 38:
"For the ordinary of each day is not such by contrast with some extraordinary; this is not the 'nul moment' that would await the 'splendid moment' so that the latter would give it a meaning, suppress or suspend it. What is proper to the everyday is that it designates for us a region, or a level of speech, where the determinations true and false, like the oppostions yes and no, do not apply-it being always before what affirms it and yet incessantly reconstituting itself beyond all that negates it."
It is with this idea of a "level" that has me convinced that he knows what he's talking about... a level of life lived differently by each individual, never to be relived or the same again.
Blanchot also ends his piece nicely by summing up everyday life as he says, "For in the everyday we are neither born nor do we die: hence the weight and the enigmatic force of everyday truth." pg.42
I will leave you with that to chew on...it's pretty heavy stuff, yet thought provoking!
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