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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: perfect image beauty
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 00:28:09 -0500 (EST)
perfect image beauty sondheim's Home perfectly beautful 0 it is perfectly beautiful, Jennifer, to have a slight flaw, in fact the slight flaw makes it perfectly beautiful, of course it does, nothing else, just the slightest offset, this is what the gods desired, the universe is isotropic or is it anisotropic, never mind, the symmetry's broken, an, i, an i, Jennifer, remember that sondheim's Home perfectly beautiful 1 once the principles are esablished, said the Greeks, Jennifer, it was easy, everything fell into place. it wasn't later, until digital syntesis, that the uncanny made its appearance in the realm of perfection, however. look at what lovely unfoldings, Jennifer, undraped sky, what beauty sondheim's Home perfect beauty 2 the cracks of marble and the scanlines, marble against marble against emptiness, ontological loss between one and another position, neuraesthetics of neuraesthenia, Jennifer, (A marble marble (A emptiness)) sondheim's Home perfect beauty 3 you huddle, huddling Jennifer, in the cracks, they're there for a reason, they're psychopomp, they're swollen, they're enormous, they're miniscule, they're inscribed, they're perfectly inscribed, Jennifer, they're palimpsest, collocation of indelible formulas, present and eternal and accounted-for, trembling and fragile and falling-apart, they're what people do, they're the done-with-it, huddling Jennifer, they're the fear and poison in men's minds, they're perfect sondheim's Home perfect image 4 you are waiting, Jennifer, engendered-Jennifer, genifer, hinged-iron-genifer, genniferrous, tiny candle burns here, Egyptians, Greeks, and Japanese are waiting, burning on and off for four days, yahrzeit, year-time, crack or impression of death, the slightest glimmer, under starrystarry skies, inconceivable beauty, i am sorry, Jennifer, i am not joking, honestly, i will not be remembered for it, this split on both sides of the entity, this almost grid, almost-alive, these perfect imperfection @ http://www.as.wvu.edu:8000/clc/Members/sondheim/ _