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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
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Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 23:21:27 -0400 (EDT)
- o what we are doing is writing stories. this is what i was doing when it happened: this is what i felt: this is what i heard oo this is what i was doing when it happened: this is what i felt: this is what i heard ooo the stories begin, develop, end: the stories follow the traditional logic of time extrapolated from human behavior: from the human construct of the world until: one's death oooo we tell the stories because we are in the midst of them and part of a vast human communality and we tell these stories because they come to an end and we understand how to make ends ooooo here's where i am now after it happened: this is what i went through: i am a witness to the world: i was there when it happened oooooo what we are doing is speaking: we are writing truths and truths oooooo what we are doing is making: we are writing fiction and comfort: we are writing ourselves into existence: into existence after it happened ooooo we rewind: here is what i made happen: this is what the world went through: the world is a witness through my fiction: the world is here oooo we make up stories to place us within a human communality that we comment upon from within, without, from the periphery: we write these stories because they have beginnings and they are fine beginnings and we understand how to write: how to write the world ooo the stories are forced into beginnings and endings: they follow the traditional human meandering: the human continuity across what later might be considered fictional events: what happened in the story: oo this is the event i am making up: this is the plot of my story: this is a good, a wonderful plot: this is quite original oo.o you write as if you were there, as if you were part of it: as if you were part of something o what we are doing is telling truths: these events almost seem real: you write so well, almost as if these things happened: you turn fiction into truth _ # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net