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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: eye
Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 02:28:57 -0400 (EDT)
eye liquidity, independence, of the eye the eye is uncanny blinded by its own site it sees through itself, an avatar or emanent "Mr. Johnson is a man of a most dreadful appearance. He is a very big man, is troubled with sore eyes, the palsy, and the king's evil. He is very slovenly in his dress and speaks with a most uncouth voice. Yet his great knowledge and strength of expression command vast respect and render him very excellent company." (Boswell, meeting Johnson.) The afterimage of the lines turns sallow, jaundiced, the page fades. The eye searches hopelessly for its interior. The true world is blind, blunt, blanked. Vision splays itself in the simulacrum of sight. No one will read this and soon I will not (i.e. no longer be able to). If not One, then an Other. Other is defined by impenetrable supplement, some might say, a Thing [Kristeva for example]. What the eye sees when it is visible, what the eye sees when it is no longer visible. http://www.alansondheim.org/eye1.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/eye2.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/eye3.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/eye4.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/eye5.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/eye6.jpg ==