TEA

Tea began as a medicine, or rather, not as something that ‘is’ but as something experienced, in a form that enhances our rejection of the illness that lies within us, barring the way to our desire to escape it. Or even worse, it forces us to think with bitterness of our own failing attempts to escape from it.

As for Teaism, it tends toward the Idea and serves as the ‘image’ for the Idea. Although Teaism retains something of the intimacy revealed by tea, far from making it feel like an infirmity, Teaism objectifies it to the point of revealing infinity within its finiteness.