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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: Phenomenology of commencing - gloss on Chuang Tzu vi\8
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 19:04:53 -0400 (EDT)
Phenomenology of commencing - gloss on Chuang Tzu vi\8 Nan (south) bo (lord, chief) Tzu [ ] -k'uei said (asked) . . alone where did you read as spontaneous ? [ ] hear this ? said heard all (various) duplicate, copy black ink (inkstone) read as: filiations of inscription, what is taken down, formulated, given form, produced and disseminated: the articulation of learning, in the sense of armature from origin or commencement (see sending). of hand-craft as well the material which is passed on. duplicate: to assert. from child , duplicate black ink from son heard obvious chant, recitation read as: the chant or recitation is the first form, aurality not yet codified. we're moving temporally in reverse; inscription is after the fact. from grandchild , obvious chant grandchild (son) heard it from read as: the filiation son/grandson ends at this point; lineage begins at this point, tendrils above. so that kinship is a matter/manner of chanting and recitation, a manner of inking and inscription. appearance (sight) bright , appearance read as vision or impression (bright appearance) read as sight or view read as: the first enunciation of form, an appearance both particulate and blinding. bright heard it from whispered approval read as hearing and listening read as: the murmuring of the world, the mumbling or ululation within the chora or receptacle - the seething or fractal liquidity of the real. whispered approval tends to inundate bright appearance, the gathering of materia dejecta into the beginnings of identity, form, structure, culture, language. , whispered approval heard it from needing service read as distinguish, express read as confirm the practice of reality read as approach the real, practice , needing service (military) read as aid or help read as: primordial intentionality, teleology, tropism, waiting. heard it from here extolling , here extolling read as chanting or singing together, in read as: primordial sound, plasma, a1-supernova, universal chaos tending towards coherency. we are approaching the bottom from the top, tending towards incoherency, the mystery or existential problematic. heard it from mysterious (occult) darkness read as gloomy, dim, sullen, murky, obscure read as: darkness of darkness of no light no image, darkness of darkness of no form of no form. of no formlessness of no formlessness. darkness out of which nothing emerges, nothing withdraws. the same which is close to but not identical to the emissions from the bottom, the originary flux, the non-identical flux, the flux of no-identity of no-identity. but also of gloom, of universal dark energy expansion, of defuge, of exhaustion, of catatonia, tending towards psychosis above. , mysterious darkness heard it from empty read as emptiness, vacant, unoccupied read as entering, taking part in read as: taking part in emptiness, joining the unoccupied. darkness above is already an occupation, here of absence, absenting here, the writing or inscription, taking part in, not occupying, not there, almost as if the symbol were in someone's mind. as if there were someone. goings , empty read as: we have to start somewhere. goings heard it from doubtful read uncertain commencing (beginning) read as beginning, origin, source read as: we have to begin somewhere. read as: read up through this sequence towards the symbol. for the symbol emerges as culture emerges, defines and constructs space. propositional logic is based on shaky foundation of flux and obscurity; in the dark, identity and equivalence are identical and equivalent. as one escapes, the origin disappears, becomes problematic, is deferred. as one escapes, the origin is annihilated. culture is entropic in its very foundation, noisy in its axiomatics, asservations. what is gained is always on the back of chaos; what is spoken, must be whispered; it is the murmur that is whispered. nothing and everything is built within the murmur, speaking it louder, crushing its voice. the throat of the world is its silencing. . ===