Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.44.0204010318150.22798-100000@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: Essay for Graduate Record Exams (GRE) from a dream:
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 03:18:31 -0500 (EST)
- Essay for Graduate Record Exams (GRE) from a dream: On a Shelf, The Futility of Being Here, on a shelf in my unaccustomed house, bottles and dishes are linked together by association. Perhaps a plate is nestled upon another; perhaps a bottle sits next to a bottle. All of these objects occupy my field of view together, as if they are simultaneous, connected by other than their random placement. Ah, if they were only linked, the fate of one connected to the fate of all! But such is not to be. Thus we divide the world into those objects and associations deeply committed to one another, embedded within each other, dependent upon one another - and those objects whose being in relation to one another is nothing more than futile. Shamefully they insist on connection that is not there; they exhaust themselves in the effort, and to no avail. _