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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Dying
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:40:30 -0400 (EDT)
Dying "The worst part about dying is the absolute, eternal, perfect lack of trope or symptom; whatever occurs is lost to subjectivity forever - as is the maelstrom itself. The simplest occurrence - a record set at a tennis match or a summer storm - is characterized by an inconceivable disappear- ance, and nothing occurs in collusion with occurrence, process, presence. Or if the subject on some untoward plane still bears witness, that witness no longer inheres, and subjectivity is permanently lost to itself. We mourn this loss when we are alive; when dead, we inhabit it." - Lyotard http://www.alansondheim.org/ nystorm jpgs