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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>, WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu
Subject: on the crest or ridge of an enormous wave, during which the events
of the
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 22:44:22 -0400 (EDT)
on the crest or ridge of an enormous wave, during which the events of the day loom exponentially, perhaps x^4 for example, the imminence of any diurnal, already lost before a week or so - and in what name then history, which integrates to the point of non-recognition? what happened thirty years ago, I have small tales, few images, cannot assemble sample days or nights; the remainder is all reconstruction, as it must be with crossed ontologies, from object and word to neural circuit. talismans, fetishes, ward against misinterpretation; these _are_ and _were_ and remain as such as if their abject or reflective status guarantees a presence across what can only be considered inconceivable loss. humans decry their minimal role in the cosmos, but more minimal yet is our recuperation of untold events among organisms, both spoken and unspoken, deaths of dinosaurs, children wailing in the distance, the fall of a lepidodendron, anything one might conceive. our slice, our crest, is the thinnest, thinner by far than the fossil we hold in our hands, as if it were precious reminder, not accidental residue; the fossil already participates in global economies of collecting, completions, transportations, representations. here though I think of the wave, the crest, the ridge, the fullness which is greatest among all others, the fecundity of the crest, Leibniz and Thom to a certain rescue, that is the rescue of all jostlings, emendations, here they are. further down the stalk or sides, quantum tunnelings continue and emissions, behave in contradiction to the distinctions above; above, however, the world is infinitely clarified, it is _there_ at the cusp or peak of roiling (singularities in differential calculus perhaps, difference calculus perhaps upon closer inspection), that we model our perceptions, our 'take,' our presence. http://www.asondheim.org/evasionofbeing.mp4 ==