Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.58.0405201530050.9089@panix2.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: Palm Berthe
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 15:30:14 -0400 (EDT)
Palm Berthe The eyes of Nikuko speak. Nikuko speaks: Berthe, we are wound and cicatrice. We are the lubricant at the edge of the scab. The scar will remember us. Nikuko speaks: This writing its scar. This writing its memory of its own. I have come to listen and to speak. Nikuko speaks: I have come to speak. Nikuko speaks: I speak. She says: The pain and fury of the world has infected this and every other language. She says: Languages are one language of pain and retribution.:Nikuko speaks: Of the open Palm and its enemies. Of the Lotus and the gathering. Every language seeps with contamination. If you cannot speak I cannot hear. If you do not write I do not read. If you go silent. If the wounding of the world. Nikuko speaks: I will write Les Yeux.:Nikuko speaks: About the angst of time, I reveal. About incoming. Les Yeux de Berthe. The dead or flaccid language. Nikuko speaks: The talk of the wounded is the cry. The whisper is the murmur of the world. Hatreds, there are. Certainly there are repulsions. Of this medium, to flee this medium. In Medea race. ::ayweiou awyeoui ayweiou awyeoui through my The eyes of Nikuko speak. Nikuko speaks: Berthe, we are wound and cicatrice. We are the lubricant at the edge of the scab. The scar will remember us. Nikuko speaks: This writing its scar. This writing its memory of its own. I have come to listen and to speak. Nikuko speaks: I have come to speak. Nikuko speaks: I speak. She says: The pain and fury of the world has infected this and every other language. She says: Languages are one language of pain and retribution.