Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.40.0112130341360.4511-100000@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: CYBERMIND@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
Subject: The Continuity Girl
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 03:42:19 -0500
- The Continuity Girl The continuity girl asserts the fundamental forces of the world. She writes 5; then 5/under erasure; she writes 4; she exhausts the series. She adds the cosmological constant, planck's constant; she erases them; she includes them; she erases them. The slate is a mess. The slate is unreadable. The slate mimics the world. The slate becomes the world. She continues to write. She is wearing a baggy sweater and carrying a Polaroid camera. She carries a great number of accessories: tripod, telephoto, wide-angle, scanning-transmission electron microscope, interferometer, neutron telescope. There are a continuous number of scenes; she numbers them according to the continuum. It is not so difficult to describe the actors; they are also continuous, and the transformation of props and objects occurs according to aristotelian logic and fluid morphology. Only certain quantum leaps give her trouble, but these radical discontinuities also permit discontinuities within or across scenes, and need not be annotated. For the rest, everything appears relatively differentiable. The slate is a mess. The slate is a continuous mess. _