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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: 494 character essay
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 02:18:37 -0400 (EDT)
494 character essay I'm chucking values this evening. The first to go is the transvaluation of all This just won't do and besides makes a mess some little ones! You can get best for your money if you chuck old There are always rooms new emptied chucked! A value valueless even it No, wait! worth lot gather in group as they were capable speech. My my clothes! I them dress transvaluations. Everyone knows me here understands daily. What others call contrary behavior value-chucking. consider contradictory find falls apart. because one thing follows another. never simultaneous things world If there could simultaneously. try about time. hated circles result, but that's those each every direction. That's part which does It will have writing matter? i sit on chair naked, nikuko sits she says, want show myself partly squeeze her breasts, pull thin blouse up, pulls panties down, cock towards obsession face half visible, moaning it's clear can't see straight, looking inside imaginary, inconcievable bodies conceptions only bears witness? lies couch, body twitching, exhausting from pirouettes, feet bleeding, cries doctor, lie turning side covered with bedsores, occupies takes over, tongue's own, no control bite nikuko's leaving marks, bites mine, neck, abdomen, we're bruises, signs, windows, people read our symbols primitive, an early form clothe us, we culture short skirt, faster, flies she's underneath, labia measure divide days nights i'm dance clumsily turns uselessly, lips calling chest burns, watching, pained, mouth opened, hear leopold konninger shuddering his dissolving before who heaving, sprawled decaying sitting nipples grabbed by beautiful russian ballet dancer, twisted, clothed pulled pensive moment shredding closeups penises grace screens, veering back forth, oh whose be, splintering right front their faces shadow, akimbo, arms askew, mouths ajar couch splattered, shattered, legs spattered, scattered, necks sputtered, minds skittered topple forward neatly arranged footprints audience boredom ennui, detumescence, irritation continuous display they're dancing high, hoe, there's nothing more present condition, better killed off somewhere midst narrative that refuses stop yes appear screen, or two trick they've gone text, ghosts, oni, obake, scrabbling lost might pirouette, not he look, not, married run konigsberg, left texts, say, write they'd rather way, said goodbye, what legends addict beginning middle end smaller stories, crying these elderer tell child remember has been told thus move into darkerer spaces, where shall gather against elders tales transforms ah getting magnificent dark wood's table, obscenities' book lay sullen evil's vellum's was approached Broadham's Jennifer, wearing silk's gown setting incredible beauty's hair. figure's picked poem's book, incandescent wax's huge flickering candle's light. poems' ghost's please problems after done typing, click return twice. look further than truth. known sent top mountain, yearning valley, ceases wander. cessation desire comprehension such dreary stone carving. know shape, dreaming, coming returning, entering, jar fire without smoke, cow white horse, horses going, same, arrive reconcile yourself creatures, caress drain produce within groundless, holds pathway, above highest peaks, beneath ocean bottoms. runs flood, higher any lightning, louder thunder, through space, black turned good effect, turn lose oneself gain tr " " '\012' < zz > yy; nl yy > zz; awk -f a/back zz > yy; sort yy > zz; pico zz; awk -f a/back < zz > yy; sort -n yy > zz; awk '{ print $2 }' zz > yy _