The Alan Sondheim Mail Archive

July 17, 2002


Lingua


start_dozing <anything>
start_idling <anything>
idle/reidle <anything>
doing/undoing <anything>
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You attempt to kiss yourself.
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You laugh.
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I don't understand that.
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You say, "I want to view the whole wide world. I want to be the whole wide
world."
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You laugh.
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You say, "I, in my idleness, will become vast. I will see vastly. I will
bear witness in my languor."
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You say, ""You need definition. You need the clarity of sex, the desire of
language, the fear of love when you are falling near the rim or lip of a
cliff."
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You laugh.
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You say, "The cliff is sublime."
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You laugh.
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Root Class isn't here.
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You pucker your lips expectantly.
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You attempt to kiss yourself.
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You laugh.
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Jan isn't here.
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Generic room isn't here.
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Generic builder isn't here.
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You laugh.
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You cry.
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You say, "On the lip or edge of the cliff, I am crying, with all this
beauty."
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You say, "@create $thing called Sublime"
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You say, "@create $thing called Beauty"
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You laugh.
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You say, "I am on the edge of the world."
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I see no "world" here.
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You say, "I am on the edge of the universe."
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I see no "universe" here.
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You say, "I am dying of love..."
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You are dying, dying of love ...
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You say, "The world is dying of everywhere."
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I see no "everywhere." here.
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You say, "You are dying, of existence."
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You say, "You are dying, of existence."
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You say, "You are dying, of existence."
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I see no "existence..." here.
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(falling near the rim or edge of a cliff)
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Self-Ex


A loudmouth and depressive to boot. A programming and hacking fraud
knowing less than a ten year old. Absolutely no reason to believe that
things are getting better. Always afraid of losing my friends. As if
quantity established meaning in the world. At the age of 59, I can't get a
decent university job. Avatars save nothing and hardly speak to me. Azure
brings light and a small comfort into my life. Azure has been so good for
me. Azure was enfolded in my arms. Believe I am a genius yet I don't know
what that means. Can't imagine what she finds in me. Carry books as a
security blanket. Constantly afraid of starving to death, being unable to
work. Constantly feel I let her down. Couldn't stop thinking about them.
Disordered of everything these memories. Don't deserve so much beauty.
Don't know how they can stand me. Don't want to have anything attributed
to the wrong person. Dreaming of iceflows, Inuit dreams. Ended up in the
hospital with a panic attack in Miami. Every day I face my own failure,
economically, artistically. Everything is flows and chance, randomness.
Everywhere I live seems like a holocaust that I bring with me. Fading and
evanescent avatars. Hard to accept that Azure loves me. Hold onto my work
as a drowning man. Hold onto small hopes of employment like someone
terminally ill. I'm writing this and sorting this to defend myself. If it
reaches a point when I can no longer function, I wish to be put to death.
It doesn't matter that I'm an excellent and inspiring teacher.  It's as if
my name meant something somewhere. Jealous of people who can take the day
off happily. Jealous of the money people have when I can't afford clothes.
Looking around the corner, Nikuko watching. Migraines are increasing. My
relations with other women have been terrible. My relatives tolerate me at
best. My sister is my father's favorite; my brother was my mother's. My
work will last millennia. My worry is that I produce quantity, not
quality. Nothing in my life beyond Azure, my friends, my daughter. Nothing
is attributed. Police circling the neighborhood again in the middle of the
night. Preparing to grade GREs and frightened out of my mind I won't pass.
She has to be faced with my failures, my depressions. She tolerates me and
loves me and I have no idea why. Since my mother died, my family relations
have been harsher. Sleeping is a horror show. Sociable, which is the final
grace. States of mind in deliberate dissolution. Stress is killing me.
Stupidly add up my search engine hits day after day. Terrified of losing
myself as hunger and homelessness seeps in. The other day I had to
suddenly stop typing and lie down. There's never enough in my world.
There's no end to it.  They protect me against the rest of the world. They
see no point in the work I do. They were dying. This is a sign of
depression as the world melds away into horror. Today I saw tiny turtles
for sale in the hot Chinatown sun. Too much television and not enough
instrument practice. Took Celexa and Valium, hoping for the sleep of the
dead. Turn the video camera and audio on us, stripping us naked. Violence
sits on one shoulder, pain on the other. Warning lights reflected on the
ceiling. Was very close to passing out. When I'm not writing, I'm ripping
myself apart. Worried about driving her away. Would die for her and am
trying to live for her. Writing every day is obsessive-compulsive, and
guarantees nothing. Writing now after trying once again to sleep.


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You don't exist. You're not there. You never have been there. People can't
see you. People can't hear you. I can't hear you. I can't see you. I can't
smell you. I can't touch you in the slightest. You're not there at all.
You have never existed. You never will exist. You're not even nothing.
People can't touch you. People can't smell you. You're not even something.
You haven't disappeared. You're not annihilated. You have no presence. You
aren't anywhere. You're not disappearing. You aren't anywhen. You haven't
been here and you haven't been gone. You're not even absent. You don't
exist in the slightest. You're not here in the slightest. You haven't ever
been around. You're not around in the slightest. You won't ever be around.
You don't have substance. You don't even have the absence of substance.
You don't have the slightest substance. You're not even a figment of
imagination. You're not even a dream. You're not even a thought. You're
not even an image. You're not even a ghost. There's no possibility of your
existence. You don't even exist. You're not here at all. You've never been
here at all. You never will be here in the slightest. You're not behind
anything. You're not in another part of the world. You're not underground.
You're not in the sky. You're not behind me in the slightest. You're not
in the universe in the slightest. You're nowhere in any other universe in
the slightest. You don't exist in any way, shape, or form. You're never
anywhere either.


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