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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: the shoulds of brilliant writing and exemplar
Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 14:42:55 -0400 (EDT)
the shoulds of brilliant writing the writing should have intensity as if one's life is at stake the writing should be close to unbearable the writing should be driven with a force sweeping all away before it the writing should drive with the same force the writing should be a fury the writing should be the travails of writing's political economy the language of the writing should be the political economy of language the writing should be the last gasp before the darkness the writing should open the portal for the reader after the darkness the writing should open after the death of the writer the portal should open after the death of the reader the writing should be the unlocking key the writing should be the locking and unlocking portal the writing should be the imprimatur and imperative the writing should be of absolute necessity and necessity's violence the writing should follow the paths of desire and desire's sexuality the writing should be self-inscribed in the eternity of hardened stone the writing should be its eternal generation the writing should be a positivity accepting everything the writing should be that freedom which tends towards itself the writing should be a cry or murmur or scream or ululation the writing should be the exposure of every intimacy and secret the writing should be a shout or moan and in all ways incandescent the writing should be both absolute and a gnawing at the foundations the writing should be furious with the reader the writing should demand the full attention and absorption of the reader the writing should be unique and wondrous the writing should be degree zero and degree one and degree infinite the style should amaze the reader as if the language were born anew the writing should be the birth and death of writing the writing should be understood by everyone and no one at all the writing should appear as first and last writing the writing should appear as the first words spoken and the last exhaled the writing should be of dire consequence and resonance the writing should be its own exemplar beyond any reasonable critique the brilliance of the writing should outshine its translation the writing and its brilliance should survive any catastrophe ___ example of brilliant writing the shoulds of brilliant the writing shoulds should if have one's intensity life as is if at one's stake life the is writing at should stake have be should close be to close unbearable to driven all with away a before force it sweeping the all writing away should before be it driven drive drive same same fury be travails writing's writing's economy political the economy writing language should last before gasp the darkness writing open the portal after for the reader the after writing death the writer writing unlocking the key unlocking locking and and unlocking imprimatur imprimatur imperative imperative absolute and necessity necessity's necessity's the violence writing follow of paths and desire sexuality desire's writing sexuality should self-inscribed eternity in of eternity stone hardened writing stone should its be eternal its generation eternal positivity positivity accepting accepting everything everything that which freedom tends which towards tends itself towards the itself writing cry scream or or murmur ululation scream writing ululation be exposure intimacy every secret intimacy the secret should shout all moan incandescent ways be incandescent a both gnawing gnawing the foundations be furious furious demand and full of attention the absorption the unique be wondrous and degree one zero and one the infinite be style as amaze the were should born amaze anew the birth death understood no by one everyone at no the appear as first and words exhaled spoken the exhaled as dire consequence consequence and resonance the own any exemplar reasonable beyond the any writing reasonable should critique be brilliance of outshine its translation the survive any catastrophe the ___ ___