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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: f / 0 / m ==> m / 0 / f
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 01:05:20 -0400 (EDT)
f / 0 / m ==> m / 0 / f Looking up www.alansondheim.org first Looking up www.alansondheim.org Making HTTP connection to www.alansondheim.org Sending HTTP request. HTTP request sent; waiting for response. HTTP/1.1 200 OK lynx: Can't access startfile http://www.alansondheim.org/machinen.mp4 You can. m / 0 / f with transplant emanent f / 0 / m too many solitary figures fantasy of masturbation accessing the imaginary transplant emanent with body fragments replaced transplant emanent = sex-maschine = inaccessible sex-machine = nothing Vishuddi Magga vi: And then, when any such bits of it as head hairs, body hairs, nails, teeth, spittle, snot, excrement or urine have dropped off the body, beings will not touch them; they are ashamed, humiliated, and disgusted. But as long as any one of these things remains in it, though it is just as repulsive, they take it as agreeable, desirable, permanent, pleasant, self, because they are wrapped in the murk of ignorance and dyed with affection and greed for self. (trans. Bhikkhu Nanamoli) A proof of this is the fact that when any part of the body becomes detached, as, for instance, the hair of the head, hair of the body, nails, teeth, phlegm, snot, faeces, or urine, people are unwilling so much as to touch it, and are distressed at, and ashamed of, and loathe it. But in respect of what remains, though that is likewise repulsive, yet men are so wrapped in blindness and infatuated by a passionate fondness for their own selves, that they believe it to be something desirable, lovely, lasting, pleasant, and an Ego. (trans. Henry Clarke Warren) ===