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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: rarely does an informal moment embrace the numinous
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 12:16:37 -0500 (EST)
rarely does an informal moment embrace the numinous azure and i had corresponded for months and finally she was arriving i photographed the plane coming in around five in the morning neither of us had any sleep and this was our first close meeting she came and is still here after six years i knew when i was photographing the plane i was taking it awkwardly i also embraced the moment and its eternal memory a tourist destination or sight among personal histories the plane taxiing to the gate nothing was open in the airport and i had been there for hours it was an early saturday morning of sometime i remember having to teach the same day among disinterested students everyone had their personal tales back to the photograph the creation of a minor history that is what i call personal it will die with me it will be only the picture of a plane the plane at a particular angle to the gate and only the plane someone on the plane was coming to meet me and others on the plane the others were coming to meet others perhaps not as propitious or perhaps equally so or perhaps in the dwelling of mourning http://www.asondheim.org/punctum.gif i had misplaced the image and found it on a forlorn isolated floppy it would play from the camera through the floppy into the computer it would be revived the newborn image greeting the light of day or of night or of dusk or dawn or liminal when the image was taken when the image perhaps took me with it and then lost itself or i had misplaced it as i already said here is the plane again here is the plane again and again and again it is the picture of someone on the plane and the plane it is the plane of someone the someone-plane coming forward the someone-plane coming forward to the gate where i am at the gate waiting to make history a personal history or a minor history waiting or just to greet someone and awkward with the camera in my hand hardly seeing neither seeing or seeing hardly any minor history, any punctum, any someone waiting, any someone and any plane taxiing and any plane arriving and arriving and arriving and again and arriving and again -