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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: branch and ruler
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 03:38:10 -0400 (EDT)
branch and ruler when the branch and the ruler meet and demarcate each other, it is the branch which has created the ruler, and the ruler which has measured the branch; every tool has ancestry; we are near the beginning, near the clout on the head, the massacre, the cannibalism, the torture by fire, the death by drowning, the skinning-alive, the gouging of the eyes, twisting the testicles, desecrating the womb; we are in the primordial when the sign is read wrong, when the sign is a sign, when a branch is after all just a branch, when a ruler is a shadow of the future anterior, when nothing is read but as-if everything is read, as if everything were readable, as if gods created things, readings, writings, bodies, slaves, corpses, the raped, the robbed, the wounded, the slaughtered, the megafaunal extinc- tions, our pride and our joy, our little baby girl or little baby boy, one flesh is tasted, there's no stopping http://www.asondheim.org/pulul.jpg
