This is neither a jaundiced obloquy nor augury of things to come, but a meditation born of sensing; a sensing of incipient light that has left a man’s face and the serene joy that used to illuminate it like a beatific filament. It’s a meditation on scars made visible by sight and insight, and “(gazes) blank and pitiless as the sun“. (Wordsworth)
Jon Jones: A Midlife Tale of Losing by Winning – A tale etched in not-so-fine lines of face and faith that really never was … Phillipians 04:13. The problem, more than Jones’ mid-career stasis, is his intestinal inability to step outside his constipated sense of self for a single self-redemptive moment. And with each passing moment it’s getting late for the man MMA once hailed as a bright light and most promising heir to Anderson Silva after the thorough drubbing of Shogun Rua in 2011. Incrucible.Net. Graphic Image by Kyu Shim – Dribble.Com
Sadly, after battles lost by winning, it has come to this for one Jon Dwight Jones: the gift (precocious in extremis) is still here, but the joy is long gone; gone with the promise of things that could have been …. beneath windows that opened and closed before the angels could sing.
Parenthesis: Even when Jones swears that he has done well for himself (materially that is), he is palpably unconvincing.
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? (Gospel According to Mark 8:36-37)
Crux: But to get to the crux of tidings impending; it matters not whether Jon Jones wins his upcoming fight against Thiago Santos on Saturday of July 6, 2019 or not. What matters most (for a Bible thumpin’ thumper) is whether he wins “the smithy of (his) soul” before the deepening shadows of eventide. But then come to think of it, losing (at the hands of Santos) might actually give Jones a sliver of a chance of winning back the promise of what he once had in the beginning …. when his god was in a position “to murder and create”(T.S. Eliot) …. just like when earth “was without form, and void; and darkness [was] upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.”
Yes, a man can indeed win by losing …… in the same way he can lose by winning.
BNSG Gnostradamus ……. Modus Meditatus.
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