Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.53.0303110819580.27295@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: Al-Ghazali, commentary on Internet Text
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 08:20:14 -0500 (EST)
Al-Ghazali, commentary on Internet Text: a book of scribbles, nonsense, a book which shifts out from under you - a contrary or wayward book, self-contrary, asking nothing - a book to be read in any position, in any state of mind - a book of meaningless revelations - a book to be pronounced or mispronounced any way you like - a book to be read once or thousands of times, or not to be read at all - a book of any emotional states of writers and readers - a book to be handled with purity or impurity, scarcity or excess - a book read in murmuring, silence, politely, a book to be read out loud - a book to be read quickly, almost in a blur or slowly at a standstill - a book without supplication, an orderly or disorderly book - a book without obeisance or honor, a dishonorable book - a book any way one wants it, an irritable confusing book - a book you can put down at any time or read through all at once - a book whose length grows, a mumbled indistinct book - a book of many colors and images, a perverse and impolitic book - a vowelless and unreadable book - an illegible book, without punctuation - an archaic book from the future, an anachronistic book from the past - a book of run-on sentences, words, and chapters, dissembling, unclear - a book of diminished speech, of intensities and dissolutions - a wavering and belittled book, a wavered and belittling book - a book neither here nor there, neither this nor that - a book to be dismissed, a book displaced by wandering souls - a misinterpreted book, a book without interpretation - a book without conceivable interpretation, a mute and blurred book - an opaque book, a book with obstacles, a book of obstacles - a book of generalities, an insipid and tepid book - an unfeeling and austere book, a book without emotional response - a book of babbling and indecipherable voices - an unsatisfying and incomplete book, a book impossible to grasp - ===