Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.44.0202250002380.28465-100000@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: the vast stream of stories
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 00:02:54 -0500 (EST)
- the vast stream of stories the eight extremes coming going starting stopping creating annihilating nothing everything the three heaps heap of everything heap of all heap of somethings the eleven objects of sacrifice women girls goats stones numbers boys men deities emperors breasts dragons the five treatises treatise of incarnation treatise of subterfuge treatise of hidden treasures treatise of measured consequences treatise of innumerable cinders the eight paths forest path sea path valley path spring path lower path upper path all-around path going-nowhere path the nine illusions illusion of the beautiful girl illusion of the artifice of gold illusion of the sacrifice illusion of the mirror-moon illusion of the enormous sun at dusk illusion of illusions illusion of sexual distraction illusion of sexual repulsion illusion of hunger and thirst eighteen signs of unloveliness fallen hair bleak eyes fallen posture scarred body bad smell greasy hair watery eyes ill-advised eyes mumbled words hanging belly too-high belly thickened fingers too-thin neck always laughing too-thick lips dirty face falling-behind falling-forward three-fold obstructions obstruction by name obstruction by callings obstructions by deafness (unlistening) six-fold veiling of monk or nun unseeing untouching unhearing unsmelling unmoving untasting the four-fold pledging pledging of service pledging of unharmfulness pledging of detachment pledging of silence the two-fold four-fold truth dharma and not-dharma nirvana and not-nirvana considerations and the clarity of thought, ontology and splintered thought, both branches might well have thought, she was my daughter _