Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.44.0206120200320.27739-100000@panix1.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: Of Chat
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 02:00:44 -0400 (EDT)
Of Chat
Alan Sondheim>> this is the proof. i go to england...
Alan Sondheim>> and talk to myself.
Alan Sondheim>> no one is here to disturb me. a connection
Alan Sondheim>> moves across space through time in order
Alan Sondheim>> to bring me to myself. paths are taken, then
Alan Sondheim>> broken. packets are signed, delivered, according
to protocols
Alan Sondheim>> of address and in the future, urgency. there
is nothing urgent
Alan Sondheim>> about myself returning to myself, nothing imminent
Alan Sondheim>> about this capturing process. i would have assumed
i know
Alan Sondheim>> myself, no matter what the discourse emanating
Alan Sondheim>> from my body. now, however, i await my reply,
hoping
Alan Sondheim>> the connection holds. what is a proof without
witness.
Alan Sondheim>> what is a witness manque, through language, the thin
Alan Sondheim>> bandwidth all that is necessary
Alan Sondheim>> for my proof. here and there, a shattered mirror.
Alan Sondheim>> i am among us or myself. i can't carry this with
me. i am an other. i need
Alan Sondheim>> the machine. the machine.
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