The Alan Sondheim Mail Archive

February 4, 2003


recent work, experimental television center.


alan and azure bat balloons and you know your arm tires, why, jennifer?

because i do think that you must stop your arm all by itself because the
balloon offers no resistance but the air itself.

and the air, jennifer, how does that work?

it works all the time and just see how the balloon slows.

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his tiny little penis whips around with male abandon. her breasts and hair
fly against the balloon always struggling against the tiny air.

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alan and azure walk across the frozen pond. thump thump thump.

why alan, says jennifer, i like the look of the sound of the footprints in
all the exciting snow.

thank you says azure, i was walking just to his right and watching the
microphone. it was most fun and look at the graph of the tilting picture.

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azure plays with her balloon which moves against time mapping into space
along with the body of azure.

oh this is fun, says jennifer, i see you.

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jennifer asks, why does the balloon change shape, why?

because it's mapping against time mapping into space., says azure, i
already told you that.

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alan makes noises and waves his hands. jennifer says, look at the pretty
patterns, why, jennifer.

because, says azure, all sounds are things.

alan waves his microphones and the sounds make things.

alan and jennifer and azure hear nothing because sound things are silent.

alan yells and yells and colors come out of his mouth.

loud blue! says jennifer.

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foofwa dances on a space capsule lozenge in stars across his eyes leaking
into a room he's leaving tracks, he's turning against time, he hates time
into space. why, says jennifer, why.

because people can't live forever, says azure.

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he leaves traces of himself everywhere, says jennifer.

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they all play the organ very fast.


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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 04:32:46 -0800
From: August Highland <hmfah3@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: 7-11@mail.ljudmila.org
To: 7-11@mail.ljudmila.org
Subject: [7-11] alan sondheim feature

August Highland is proud to present Alan Sondheim
as a featured writer in the winter issue of
The Muse Apprentice Guild. August is presenting
a 27,000 word philosphical work by Alan with an introduction
by Jake Berry. In his introduction Jake writes


    "This absorbing work makes dry ideas interesting and makes art
     of philosophic dust.


The winter M.A.G. 2003 will appear on Thursday February 6.

The Muse Apprentice Guild
www.muse-apprentice-guild.com
(internet explorer 5.5 or higher)




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i say, i can't possibly keep up the high quality of my work. i don't have
new ideas all the time. as soon as you can identify my style, i've failed.
as soon as i feel i've accomplished something, i've failed myself. how can
i have done anything at all with such poor quality. some of the texts are
better than others and some are worse. some just seem to be fillers and
some seem to be repetitions. i demand staleness after nine years of daily
writing. if anything is brilliant it gets lost in the rest of the sludge.
you're reading this? you're still reading this? well, i've got infinite
errors and infinite regrets. if this sounds different at all it isn't by
alan sondheim. it's not even by someone pretending to be alan sondheim.
it's not even by a friend or relative. look at that person over there. i
made you look and he did it all. i bet. he'd sign his name 'ron padgett'
but that would be someone else. he's trying to figure out whether to
justify this mess. if he justifies it would be a mess of a mess. in both
senses of mess and both senses of justify, he thinks. he'll do it! he'll
do it!


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i high say, quality can't possibly work. keep it up don't have high
quality say, of my work. possibly don't have new ideas all the time. my
style, soon new ideas, identify all style, time. i've failed. ... soon
feel failed accomplished how something, can failed soon myself. as how i
done quality. anything some at of with texts such are poor i quality. have
some done texts all are with better worse. than some others just and seem
worse. fillers just better seem than to others be and fillers some
repetitions. nine demand of staleness daily after some nine seem years to
daily repetitions. writing. gets if lost is the brilliant rest it of gets
the lost sludge. in writing. rest anything sludge. it you're you're
reading still this? reading still well, well, infinite got reading
infinite this? errors this regrets. ... this sounds different by regrets,
if even sondheim. it's someone not pretending even to alan sondheim. a
person or friend over or there. a relative. look it's that even person
over there. his did name all. it's 'jennifer' i bet. he'd look, a bad sign
and his name is 'jennifer' all. who else. ... would trying else. out he's
whether trying to figure that out would whether be justify be mess. mess
justifies mess. mess mess. both would senses of justify, he'll thinks. of
he'll mess do and it! both ...


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