Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.63.0510262228540.24052@panix3.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: Roost
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 22:29:02 -0400 (EDT)
Roost This _has_ to be the animal in-itself, however one wants to think of it - other than time-stretch and minor audio modification, very little was http://www.asondheim.org/roost.mp4 done. Over and over again, tricks were attempted - all sorts of things, nothing worked. The animal remained. "Perhaps," I thought, "I should leave things well enough alone." Somewhere I'm positive, Han Shan was silent, or here, I'm not sure about these things - I don't know how, for example, to answer a koan to anyone's satisfaction. (And for myself, why bother? I've absorbed everything except the time-stretch of meditation.) I need this. And seeing it, now, it seems as if one would wait for catastrophe, slaughter, injury - fright at the very least. This however is farthest from the truth, at least this truth. What remains, inhabits. These moments hold the world together. They roost. "But even when a hypothesis occurs in logic, the fact that it can be framed does not itself belong to logic." (Whitehead and Russell, Principia Mathematica.