Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.44.0211020020040.25440-100000@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: the suite of ember.movs
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 00:20:22 -0500 (EST)
the suite of ember.movs "I want earthquakes, because I know that then the earth can breathe." - Nijinsky - the great lamina of the stars sway back and forth - you can see the oldest stars - they are pure and clean - they are the youngest - they have no motives - the animal of the victorian woman splayed on the couch - she is in browns and maroons and red - her legs are naked - spread - she is the youngest in the world - she has invented language - she has invented motive - she sways back and forth on the laminar plane - in tune with the rhythms of the universe - the laminar plane and stars are in an 1844 train tunnel riding the harbor to long island - the vault is brickwork painted white - you can still see the cinders on the ceiling - the engines had 7 foot wheels of wood - they were strapped with iron - the stars sway and disappear into the depths of the 1844 brooklyn tunnel which is the oldest subway in the world - the naked woman rides before the stars - her clothes thrown open - thrown to one side - memories of trains - memories of trains - cinders and soot spew forth from an absent object - from an invisible object - they make arcs - they spread - splay - the tunnel is the space of the nineteenth century - o loving eye caressing the objects with totality against totality - searching out tunnels among tunnels, holes among holes - the youngest stars know thee not, neither the oldest, neither the sun or any luminary body - of philosophy - that language is small labor, the reading and writing of it, the speaking of it - the margins of language perform according to persuasion and consensus - the world is invisible to the speaking of the dinosaurs - all culture is a stuttering - "The earth is alive. It was once a sun." - Nijinski - ===