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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Jewelry
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 01:16:57 -0500 (EST)
Jewelry Maybe 1% of my life, I said, has been taken up with determining the flux of such jeweled surfaces, determined by their boundaries, determined by coordinates, assigned to data-files, configured by protocols. Flux is an occasion of light and shadow. Surfaces are instantiations of such occa- sions. Boundaries construct skeletal structures. Structures meld bound- aries. Boundaries envelop gleams. Surfaces flow transparent flux. Jewels emerge from gleams and flux. Transparent jewels reveal skeletal struc- tures. Lustre flows gleam from skeletal folds and hinges. Test protocols through hardness and cleavage. Double refraction folds colored flux of light and shadow. Code lies in protocols. Take the code apart and there's only code. Scrape the code and the abject gleams. Surfaces are dreams of such occasions. http://www.alansondheim.org/jewel1.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/jewel2.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/jewel3.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/jewel4.jpg Perhaps 1% of my time on earth has subdued flux of such jeweled surfaces. Such dirty surfaces are cleansed by scraping. Scraping dirties such jew- eled surfaces. Such surfaces subdue my time on earth.