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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: the mirror
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 10:25:38 -0400 (EDT)
the mirror everything has been said about the mirror, speech cannot reflect, lip reading is muscle reading, speech reflects upon speech, there is here and that, there are no scent, touch, nothing of temperature or sound, sound may reflect, not here and now among the eye, there are no taste, of which the pure, for example that dirty bum over there, no need to clean her mirror cloth, brilliant, what happens before the mirror is caught within the mirror, from a certain viewpoint, certain angle, not everywhere, not even where you or i are the mirror is a form of digital memory, instantaneous release and absence of commitment, filtered the visible within the eternal, that is to say positioning the eternal, positing the turn away from, away from what, from contagion, from what cannot reflect or be reflected, there are always exceptions, less relevant than one might think, what is the rule here, only photonic mechanisms, absorption release, according to what, according to mathesis, to pure form itself, to the cleansed mirror, forgetting just the rest of things turning the mirror off, turning away from the mirror, from mirror or mirroring, even the shift at an obtuse angle, there it goes, there it all goes but the memory, that is, of the digital before its bearing, before presage, prespeech, of a future anterior, which is what, which is why the mirror appears to foretell what, foretell the future which is why the future is digital ( http://www.asondheim.org/mirror1.jpg ) ( http://www.asondheim.org/mirror2.jpg ) ( http://www.asondheim.org/mirror3.jpg ) ( http://www.asondheim.org/mirror4.jpg )