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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: pack
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 00:37:26 -0400 (EDT)
pack so you take the thing on your back, installation clothes, smaller than 100 meters in whatever space this is really. you take it with you, carapace cloth, it hides you, you move, you move it, it moves. you can move things totally gainormous, no leverage involved, only the usual matrix transform- ations or maybe perspective all mixed up with sins, cosines, tangents. it's all appearance, this thing with its smoke and rafters, balsa struts and paper kite folding, the greatest moving freely as the smallest. blown air a transformation factored into object emission-spigot movement, it's all functions, high-speed rendering gaming physics does. it's that. but it give you freedom as well, set up, perform fast, don't even bother to take down, just detach, move on before they catch you. audience applause is what you live for, every show more spectacular than every other, there's no repertoire, just these things that flood, flow about, all going back to the dimly-lit (it was dimly-lit) room in the virtual environments labora- tory, a few people shuffling about, wires everywhere, up and down them, in and out of them. it comes down to files and interrupts, data and keystroke and mouse, some site and sight involved. http://www.alansondheim.org/pack.mp4 http://www.alansondheim.org/ pack pngs dict pack {Pack and prime road} or {Pack and prime way}, a pack road or packs or bales. {Pack needle}, a needle for sewing with pack thread. pack animal. {Pack staff}, a staff for supporting a pack; a peddler's {Pack train} (Mil.), a troop of pack animals. pr. & vb. n. {Packing}.] [Akin to D. pakken, G. packen, Dan. pakke, Sw. packa, Icel. pakka. ] 1. To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close order or narrow compass; as, to pack goods in a box; to pack fish. Strange materials packed up with wonderful art. Of all my buried ancestors are packed. 2. To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and crowd into; as, to pack a trunk; the play, or the audience, packs the theater. 3. To shuffle, sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as And mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown. stack[3]; as, to pack a jury or a caucus. packed assembly of Italian bishops. devised and packed by his enemies. 6. To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber; as, to pack a horse. Our thighs packed with wax, our mouths with honey. packing}; -- sometimes with off; as, to pack a boy off to Till George be packed with post horse up to heaven. 8. To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e., steam; as, to pack a joint; to pack the piston of a steam 1. To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles to form a compact mass; as, the goods pack conveniently; wet snow packs well. perch begin to pack. Poor Stella must pack off to town You shall pack, to join in collusion. "Go pack with him." {To send packing}, to drive away; to send off roughly or in presently sent him packing." gang"; "a pack of thieves" [syn: {gang}, {ring}, {mob}] 7: a cream that cleanses and tones the skin [syn: {face pack}] v 1: arrange in a container; "pack the books into the boxes" [ant: {unpack}] 2: fill to capacity; "This singer always packs the concert halls"; "They murder trial packed the court house" supporters so as to influence the outcome; "pack a jury" an umbrella"; "I always carry money"; "She packs a gun 7: press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the 8: hike with a backpack; "Every summer they are backpacking in the Rockies" [syn: {backpack}] 10: seal with packing; "pack the faucet" 11: have the property of being packable or compactable or of odd-shaped items do not pack well" [syn: {compact}] 12: load with a pack [syn: {load down}] to absorb blood; "The nurse packed gauze in the wound"; "You had better pack your swollen ankle with ice" backpack, bag, baggage, bale, band, bar, barrel, barricade, basket, bestow, bevy, bibliofilm, bind, bind up, bindle, bipack, inscribe, interline, invest, jack, jam, jam-pack, jar, joker, overlade, overload, overstuff, overweight, pack away, pack in, pack off, pack the deal, pack up, package, packet, pad, pair, trick, trip, tripack, troop, trouble, troupe, trump, truss.