Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.44.0203142331460.10570-100000@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: Berda'awat, biar-lah hitam; mandi, biar-lah basah.
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 23:32:03 -0500 (EST)
- Berda'awat, biar-lah hitam; mandi, biar-lah basah. If you get inked, get black; if you bathe, get wet. (Malay proverb, from Winstedt, A Simple Malay Reader) If you write, write to the fullest; if you burn, conflagrate; if you swim, dive. If you get inked, get black: write into the maelstrom, conflagrate. If you bathe, breathe, get wet, drown; if you drink, drown; if you write, write down with bodies floating in the stream of stories. If you drown, you drown; if you write, you're written. Write and you drown; if you get ink, your lungs fill with darkness: black ink, and you get black. _