factual, tautological, "incomprehensible", paradoxical statements

Example Miklós Erdély: Conjectures II. published by Kollapszus orv. Magyar Mûhely 1974, Paris

CONJECTURES II.

1. Nothing happens.
2. Nothing happens.
3. My friend visited me. What happened? I didn't and neither did he but the visit happened.
4. At last something is happening.
5. That stone is still there the same way as it was. This is repetition.
6. Did anybody happen? Somebody is happening.
7. If the same happens all the time: nothing happens.
8. If the same happens all the time: that is something.
9. If it is not the same that happens all the time: that's us.
10. The hand is at hand.
10/a. The legend of the tangible.
Once upon a time somebody fastened a thin line to one point of the sky so high that it was out of reach. The other end of the line almost touched the ground. Sometimes people, when they particularly felt like it, grabbed the swinging end of the line and yanked. It was to their great satisfaction to realize that the line did not loosen and was perfectly strong. They never really did a real test to see how much the line could hold, thus it remained intact. Through the course of time, however, the lower end became a little smudged from all the touching. And that is how people formed their concept about the tangible.
11. The presence of the future is a secret.
12. The past deserves its fate. (serves it right)
13. The future earns its fate. (serves it right too)
14. It has been learnt that the non-existent entity called "detail" has the degree of its existence reduced by repetition.
15. That is left out of the story; the concrete thing. (To whom do you want to refer/pertain?)
16. Only the happening is allowed to be concerned about what happened as if it had not happened.
17. Repetition is ripe for change.
17/a. Fifty years ago, a group of soldiers was ordered to march on the barracks-yard in circles. This group of soldiers is still marching round and round, until the end of time. Photographs are such things. They are groups without soldiers and barracks.
18. The definite would fall down if it existed. The indefinite is happening.
19. Behavior without a container is indefinite. (Aristotle carries the container!)
20. Nothing: absolute repetition.
21. I want to see Buddha riding a motorboat.
22. Only nothing is eternal.
23. Eternal is temporary.
24. Nothing is.
25. Everything happens to nothing.
26. Everything o n l y happens. This is what a myth is.
27. When I say explosion, I have said: time is stopping.
28. Space: is time used up.
29. The explosion of the story is not an extinguishing but an increasing explosion.
30. Life is a flee from the alternative between repetition and explosion.
30/a. The Legend of the Restored Egg.
Explosion by the pool. The young boy glues the shell of the peeled hard-boiled egg back onto it. In the shower, the shower-head dries up the ones taking a shower under it. The young boy has not even finished to peel the egg yet and he has already started to put the small pieces of the shell back on. The shower-head has not even dried up the one taking a shower yet it has already made him wet again. In this a new explosion shook the air. The pieces of the egg-shell were in their places again. This is the legend of the restored egg.
31. I'll repeat my sentence.
32. I'll repeat my sentence.
33. I won't repeat my sentence.
34. I won't repeat my sentence.
35. I'll still repeat my sentence.
36. I didn't keep what I promised.
37. I really kept what I promised.
38. I don't always keep my promises.
39. Eventually, I have to keep all my promises.
40. I cannot repeat my life.
41. Eventually, I have to keep all my promises.
42. Even right now I keep on making promises with my life.
43. I either keep or make a promise.
44. If I don't make a promise, I keep it.
45. If I don't make a promise, I don't keep it.
46. I'll repeat my sentence.
47. I'll repeat my sentence. I've kept it. I've promised.
48. I'll repeat my sentence. I'll keep it.
49. I'll repeat my sentence. I'll keep it. I haven't kept it.
50. I promise that I'll repeat this sentence yet I declare that I will not hold the promise in the repeated sentence as one that concerns me, by means of repeating the present sentence I consider my promise included in the present sentence as being kept.
51. I promise that I'll repeat this sentence yet I declare that I will not hold the promise in the repeated sentence as one that concerns me, by means of repeating the present sentence I consider my promise included in the present sentence as being kept. I didn't keep it.
52. My present sentence is the repetition of the previous one, in which I promised that I would repeat my sentence. It is not true.
53. My present sentence is the repetition of the previous one, in which I promised that I would repeat my sentence. It is true and not true.
54. I won't repeat my promise.
55. I'll repeat: I won't repeat my promise.
56. The accumulation of tension within a repetitive system is manifest in a speeding expansion, which, in other words is an increasing explosion, i.e. time.
57. An absence of obstacles leads to increase.
57/a. The Legend of how Fleas Spread
A flea once realized that if he does not jump for six years, then once in six years he will be able to jump a couple of thousand times farther. And so he jumped from his fellows once every six years a thousand times farther than before. Through the course of time, others followed his example, since they also found it true that it is better to make a few big jumps than many small ones very often. For them, distances became shorter and the Globe shrunk. They felt that foreign lands not only got closer but also that mother earth was less attractive. This is the legend of how fleas spread.
57/b. The Shameful Story of Fleas
Two solitary fleas met each other once. At another time another two solitary fleas met. It also happened very often that two fleas who had lived apart eventually found each other and stayed together. Further solitary fleas joined in and so the number of groups started to grow. As it happens to all, the groups never met again.
58. Attraction is the impatience of monotony.
59. Repetition signifies and fixes the expansion spreading apart by change towards the unidentifiable. Repetition is the memory of change.
60. Heartbeat is the mill and pump of change.
61. Speed is the agony of time.
62. Space is opening up and time is being born.
63. Consciousness is a changing flower rooted in repetition.
64. Happening thought might touch whole networks of stories. This is magic.
65. The organic makes the promise of constant shifting, change and redemption.
66. The absolute change is creation.
67. Acceleration is the forecasting storm of change, whose completeness bears the new.
68. Points 7, 30 and 66 are likely to be wrong.
69. Points 21 and 36 are likely to be true.