Reviewing various definitions of the verb dazzle, a consistent aspect is the blinding, stunning, or sense-confusing effect that the light in question possesses. It denotes a drawing-in effect coupled with a progressive disorientation proportional to light intensity and duration of contact. Etymologically, it is directly related to the word daze, which can be seen as a sibling term less specific to photic events.
She, our beloved anglerfish, destabilizes traditional notions of both the hunt as well as the trap by invoking the universal power of the beacon, at first shimmering then glowing then dazzling. We bear witness to a mode of predation that can neither be rightly named active nor passive, but which we declare solar, a mode wherein She is active insofar as She emits in order to reach. In observing this curious mode of predation we discover a prompt to reevaluate the nature of our own methods of pursuit, the ways in which we link desire to terrain.
This expert dazzler boldly offers a tantalizing light mere inches from her own hideous mug, yet by a most diaphanous cunning manages to remain concealed. Ever the graceful hostess, She sets the stage for an orbicular occasion (a Grand Ball, just for you) so irresistible that She herself is subtracted from the occasion precisely in the act of beholding its splendor- a splendor which is difficult to understate in the vastness of black depths, where She pricks the darkness in the form of a beckoning star.
I seek a taste of the Beyond, and, after all, I received an invitation (it seems She knew of my secret yearning). As I move in closer, do I anticipate attributing this light to a someone, a something? No- the party has taken on a life of its own.
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