The Intellectual Koan Again

Expanding a little, and even perhaps alot- immeditate time will tell- on the very recent post, whose very short entirety amounted to the title Strange, and the line:

This was written years ago.

I am in the disadvantaged position of having produced the line and finding it harder to approach it as nakedly as would be desired, but anyway, is it really strange, and if so why?

Perhaps it really was written years ago and has only surfaced 'now', this moment, before the gaze of the viewer. But even if it was written years ago it still claims to have been written years before, regardless of when one is seeing it. But maybe it is not the original; maybe someone else had written the line years before and this is but a copy, and a humble acknowledgement of such. So it really was written years ago. Ah, but even then the original line claims to have been written years ago. But perhaps that 'original' wasn't really the original, and it really was written years earlier. But even then...and so on.

But even this is a kind of mental taming of the linguistic phenomenon of the line, rendering it less nakedly direct. It could, I think, be included in the bracket of the Intellectual Koan, an utterly condensed but explosive form of literature of which I am perhaps, for all I know, the humility drenched originator and sole exponent. Other recent examples of the form-collapsing form possibly being, though possibly not:

This is the first word of this sentence.

"This sentence is shit."
"What a harsh judgement. I think it's a wonderful sentence."

Most thought perhaps amounting to the tightening of a knot, genuine thought perhaps the loosening of the knot, while these the positive unravelling of it, though they could certainly do without being lumped together within stagnation breeding 'form'; leading to the degeneration of something 'known', or 'understood', instruments within the intellectual armoury, upon which edifices of certainty these intellectual koans would perhaps sneer, were they to bother to recognise their existence, which, given their nature, they wouldn't.