The Alan Sondheim Mail Archive

August 1, 2008


a mental railroad trip, mirage, yabyum


Hysteria. A functional neurosis with abnormal sensations, emotions, or
paroxysms. H. major, hysteroepilepsy. H. minor, a mild form of the
disease.

Hysteric. Pertaining to hysteria. H. Ataxia, a hysteric state marked
by loss of sensation in the skin and in the leg muscles. H. Chorea,
a form of hysteria with choreiform movements.

Hystericoneuralgia. Like neuralgia but of hysteric origin.

Hysterics. A paroxysm of hysteria.

Hysteroepilepsy. Hysteria with epileptiform convulsions.

Hysterogenic. Causing hysteria.

Hysteroid. Resembling hysteria.

Hysteromania. Nymphomania.

Hysteropsychosis. Mental disorder with uterine disease.

Hysterotraumatism. Hysteric symptoms due to traumatism.

Railway Kidney. An affection of the kidney due to constant jar.
R. Spine. See Erichsen's Disease.

Erichsen's Disease. Railway spine; railway brain. A train of symptoms
following accident, which may assume the form of traumatic hysteria,
neurasthenia, hypochondriasis, or melancholia.

Erotic. Pertaining to sexual passion.

Eroticism. Tendency to erotomania.

Erotomania. Insanity from sexual passion.

Erotopathy, Erotopathia. Perverted sexual instinct.

Perversion. The state of being turned away from the normal course.
P., Sexual, a person abnormality of the sexual instinct.

Pervert. One who has turned from the right way. P., Sexual, a
person whose sexual instincts are perverted.

from Gould's Pocket Pronouncing Medical Dictionary, 1900 edition

http://www.alansondheim.org/ mirage jpgs

Sometimes the software/physics of Second Life produces anomalies, chimera;
such is the case of the mirage, of one or another video stream, that
appears with subdued intensity in the surrounding sea. The stream is often
not that of the land parcel (which presents another) and equally often
runs when no video is turned on at all. These ghostlike apparitions are
avatars of avatars, emanations close to hypnagogic images, an imaginary,
all those unnerving wraiths of the uncanny. Against the scintillation of
the tantric sky, they come close to yabyum, closer still.

To access the Odyssey exhibition The Accidental Artist:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/48/12/22

tantric space


To access the Odyssey exhibition The Accidental Artist:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/48/12/22


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Cum forwar set your frantic Cum forwar
  set your frantic ew
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Present for your harenePresent for your har
ene pleasure
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  pleasure
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Leave all this empty worl behinLeave all this empty worl
  behin
  behin


  place an leave your min leave your min
  leave your min


Tantric eyes are everywhere
Avatar legions come and stare
Slowly spaces turn up cleared
It's what objects have always feared
Open holes often leered
leads cross other places
When you go leave your traces
Your sight is buried in sites
You set world to days or nights
Objects murmur with fearful glows
Light sound make wayward shows
Across the floors their numbers legion
Crossing another region
Video grinds worlds halt
just a momentary bandwidth fault
touch ball below
again return flow
As if body spews drains
Against boundaries where it rains
The smoke spells out uncanny words
Prims disappear like frightened herds
Come forward get tantric due
Cum frantic dew
What see hardly leisure
Present for hardened pleasure
Leave all this empty behind
time place mind
worl  ays soun waywar an
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banwiIt's ban
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th y bo
isappear frightene her hersforwar ueewharenePresent har
ene behinLeave behinmin


Tantric eyes are everywhere
Avatar legions come and stare
Slowly spaces turn up cleared
It's what objects have always feared
Open holes are often leered
Open leads cross other places
When you go you leave your traces
Your sight is buried in other sites
You set your world to days or nights
Objects murmur with fearful glows
Light and sound make wayward shows
Across the floors their numbers legion
Crossing to another region
Video grinds the worlds to halt
It's just a momentary bandwidth fault
You touch your ball and go below
You touch again return and flow
As if your body spews and drains
Against the boundaries where it rains
The smoke spells out uncanny words
Prims disappear like frightened herds
Come forward get your tantric due
Cum forward set your frantic dew
What you see is hardly leisure
Present for your hardened pleasure
Leave all this empty world behind
Leave time and place and leave your mind

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