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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: shining upwards
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 23:56:47 -0500 (EST)
shining upwards the face in which epiphany is produced and which appeals to me, mirage of breath, perhaps I am doing this for you, an epiphany. there is always epiphany, talk, sleep, breath, 'a state of _phantasmic exaltation_ forms the typical introduction of the organism from space, all breath and exaltation.' the midst of the grasping, the organisms, saying, ending in ellipsis ... and the exaltation of violence which makes a man, a man. among those macroscopic moments of exaltation are emotions. but it is this state, that of emotion and exaltation and perfect torture and annihilation, the exaltation of love, ecriture feminin, that one ... but the interior may be lifted into exaltation, this state, i have said to you, this state of the organism, this epiphany when worlds ... a temporal detumescence or slackening - an order associated, if you will, with an end, the resulting detumescence partaking of defuge, exhaustive ennui, out of exhaustion, out of irritation murmur, grappling with itself, an 'awkward' tumescence ... in yourself is a mummy-metaphor, death and detumescence already foregone, able, unnerved, a state of _frisson,_ semi-tumescence, i want great portents ... to establish the bulwark ... - the first word, the slight tumescence of the cloth, of burrowing. swollen tumescences, convexities; meniscus lenses, sinusoidal meanderings: relationships of to the dry decathecting in the bushido zone, and ennui, out of exhaustion and detumescence, out of irritation - and ennui, out of exhaustion and detumescence, out of irritation murmur ... and arousal, tumescence, distension, stretched or opened skin: upwelling and arousal, tumescence, distension, stretched or opened skin: upwelling detumescence of etiquette in the light of the body and detumescence of the light and exaltation and transcendence and exaltation of the light audible and audible _