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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: The Stanley Williams decision comes in the midst of text production:
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 16:18:39 -0500 (EST)
The Stanley Williams decision comes in the midst of text production: Tom, I say, into the phone, are you there? Are you there, Tom? Pick up, Tom. If you're not there, Tom, you won't pick up, and you won't get this message. I might then leave any message, Tom, it would make no difference. Not even differance. You cannot bend to my will, you do not know my will, you are not present to listen to this message. Or you are listening on playback, and I am not present. Either I am not present or you are not present; in either case, time is transitive, but hopeless. It is the hopelessness of time that occasions this message, this message for you to pick up. I am speaking to the unhearable, just as you are listening to the unspeakable. Where are Janice and Maria? Janice and Maria should be here, this is the last class, this is an extremely important class. In this class you will learn, a. the reason for the class in its entirety, and b. your grade in relation to the reason and your participation in the class. I am disappointed in this class, no, not in your presence, but in the absence of Janice and Maria, and for that matter, the absence of Tom as well. You will be marked down if you do not come to class. You have not been in class for the past several weeks, and may not be taking this class for all I know, any longer. I know I'm speaking to those of you who are present, but what else might I do? I can hardly speak to those who are absent, who are unlistening, not even to the rumor of my speaking; they are nowhere to be found. Pseudomainia: The mania of false hands. 10,000 PseudoMainiacs: The mania of false bands. False hands play in false bands; I listen to neither of them. To be precise, I do not listen to hands in any case, but to bands, to what the hands, more precisely, the fingers, accomplish in relation to the bands, or rather within the bands, what the bands desire to accomplish in their entirety, to which I am both subject and object. The governor of California has just denied clemency to Stanley Williams, an unbelievably inhumane decision. We are living in one of the most racist, polluting countries on earth. I hope there are riots. I hope the governor's mansion is burned down. I hope the governor is burned down. There is no justice in AmeriKKKa. Poor Arnold says this is one of the hardest decisions he has had to make. He is present for the decision. He stays alive. His stupid grin is present for the decision. His stupid grin will stay alive. His righteous muscles tense for the righteous decision. His cock is hard. It stays alive. Bind it. Blind it.