Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.44.0209170001530.27438-100000@panix2.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: The writing
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 00:02:13 -0400 (EDT)
The writing k 1 telnet 127.0.0.1 3000 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to 127.0.0.1. Escape character is '^]'. Welcoming > New arrival from clara on line 4. /n Karl > Name set. > New arrival from clara on line 5. (5) Gertrud says, "Karl, are you here?" Yes, Gertrud, I am here; this is writing on the wall, evanescent writing. (4) Karl says, "Yes, Gertrud, I am here; this is writing on the wall, evanescent writing." (5) Gertrud says, "I see the words, but I do not see the hand that writes them." It is the same for me. Of those who were weeded out, it is the same for all of us. (4) Karl says, "It is the same for me. Of those who were weeded out, it is the same for all of us." (5) Gertrud says, "The words read the words; the words write them." The words, reading and writing one another. As if they are the last words. (4) Karl says, "The words, reading and writing one another. As if they are the last words." (5) Gertrud says, "The only words in this space, the only conceivable words." A permanent cipher, nothing of reading, nothing of writing. (4) Karl says, "A permanent cipher, nothing of reading, nothing of writing." (5) Gertrud says, "Nothing of translation, of audience; nothing of comprehension." What we have to say to one another, (4) Karl says, "What we have to say to one another," (5) Gertrud says, "The words already speaking" The words already spoken-for (4) Karl says, "The words already spoken-for" (5) Gertrud says, "Of longings, yearnings, of good-byes" Of leaving our signs for one another (4) Karl says, "Of leaving our signs for one another" (5) Gertrud says, "Of meetings elsewhere than this evanescent space, this space of ghosts." Everywhere and nowhere at all, this (4) Karl says, "Everywhere and nowhere at all, this" (5) Gertrud says, "Permanent communion, this" sign ... (4) Karl says, "sign ..." > The conversations you have seen here are not real, they > are trapped in a world between reality and computer nets... Connection closed by foreign host. ===