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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Touch of the Left Hand
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:40:20 -0500 (EST)
Touch of the Left Hand Among two of them one of whom extended herself And one of whom attached himself different 'It is time some of you vain babies, who have a 'body beautiful' complex about your dancing, realize that an expressive body is more beautiful than an unexpressive one. But no, you fight distorting your body - even the least bit. If you won't, you won't, but your dancing will be shallow, and as empty as the baby stare some of you are cultivating.' (Horst) 'I'm not asking you to tie yourself up like a pretzel or grovel on the floor, but there must be some distortion if you are portraying even a slight case of mental malajudstment - a little inferiority or martyr complex.' (Horst) 'You can't drag an analyst's couch out on the stage and tell us about it. You have to express the mental with your body, so you distort the move- ment somewhat to externalize.' (Horst) 'All of them died on my red lips In my hands In my sexlessness Which possesses all sexes I am as pale as moonsilver.' (Anita Berber trans. Gordon) 'In every experience of every objective 'This' by every experiencer the female differentiating function is necessary, but so too is the male seed of unity, which supplies 'Being' from the side of the subject, the unitary consciousness of self from the side of the experiencer.' (Rawson) 'Why are so many boys and girls not erect? Look in almost any school and you see that many of the pupils, whether sitting or standing, are never straight. Heads are forward; shoulders double over a little, sometimes a good deal; chests incline to droop, and grow flat. Fine, full chests, and an easy, graceful carriage, are rare. As the pupils get older, these faults, instead of going away, grow worse. Can this be helped? Is there any way to make a crooked boy or girl straight? Take a slim, angular boy, for instance, whose father is round- shoulded and flat-chested--and perhaps his mother, too: can he become straight, like a soldier?' (Blaikie) 'The same [entity] does not arise from [itself], and how can it arise from another? Neither does it arise from both [itself and another], and what exists without any cause?' (Candrakirti, trans. Huntington) 'The singularity of specular reflections is demonstrated by the fact that if one tries to apply to them the schema of a communicational process mamy puzzling conclusions arise: source and addressee coincide (at least in cases where a human being looks at him or herself in the mirror), receiver and transmitter coincide; expression and content coincide since the content of the reflected image is just the image of a body, not the body itself; as a matter of fact the referent of a mirror image is pure visual matter.' (Eco) Among the two of them who extended And both of whom attached themselves to both http://www.alansondheim.org/dominon.mp4