Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.40.0201072150440.1558-100000@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: Story
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 21:50:58 -0500 (EST)
- Story The older man turns to the woman and says, "I don't know why you're making such a fuss over this. I did speak to your son, and I thought there was an understanding. He seemed to agree that there was an understanding between us." The older woman turns to the man and says, "I don't know where this is coming from. We spoke about it a long time ago, all three of us. I have eyes which are looking in your direction. I can see you clearly from my perspective but I cannot see behind me." The man says, "I can hear you even when I'm not looking at you. I will take the memory of this conversation out of the room with me." He waves his hands around the room. He says, "I will be seeing other things when I walk and will take care not to fall anywhere." She walks towards him and turns. She says, "When you leave my vision will continue and I will hear as well. I will be hearing other things and seeing the same things but I will not be seeing you. Tomorrow I will remember this conversation and I may well remember it for a long while. I will be walking in other places and my steps will not be as these steps." He says, "When I think of other things I do not see them or hear them, but I continue to see and hear you when I am looking in your direction. When I am looking in another direction, I am seeing other things. I continue to hear you. When I think of other things I imagine them but I know where my feet are and I am keeping my balance at all times." She says, "It is a shame my son will be in the theater so soon. He will have to memorize what others have said, and will have to see in some way what others are telling him to see. Also he will have to hear." He says, "He will have to hear what he already knows. He will remember what he sees and hears. He will leave the room and will see other things and hear other things. He will think of more and more things. He will think of a great many things." She says, "He will be thinking of far more things than I am thinking of. When I leave you I will be thinking of other and different things, and I will be keeping my balance at all times. I will be seeing where I am looking, and I will be looking where I am seeing. I will be hearing in every direction, what is near to me." He says, "I will also be looking where I am seeing and I will be hearing other things, and we will not be hearing your son or seeing your son." She says, "We are not hearing or seeing my son. My son is not here. My son is keeping his balance at all times and he is seeing where he is looking." He says, "Yes, we are not touching him, and we are not touching each other. I am not feeling the outside of your skin. I am looking where I am seeing." She says, "I am feeling my skin from the inside and the outside. I am looking at my skin. I am seeing my hand touching my face. I will carry this touching with me. I can touch in every direction, what is near to me." She walks towards the door and leaves. He walks towards the door and leaves. _