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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Awful
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 03:34:24 -0400 (EDT)
Awful Kenneth Rexroth on Henry Miller writes of Celine: "I have been in the neighborhoods Celine describes. They simply aren't that awful." But the Jews are awful, and the USA wants everybody to be Jewish. Celine got it wrong; the Jews aren't awful and he was writing "a work of art" (Rexroth). But Rexroth wasn't writing about that period and Celine wants everyone in the USA to commit suicide. That's a possibility. I think we ought to police the world and annihilate our prisons. Annihilate. The French are awful, so are the Syrians, Egyptians, Chinese, Iranians, Iraqis, North Koreans, and Russians. Or there are some among them awful. Awful = offal and it's dirty among others. The world heats up, hurricanes and fires burn and flood, leaving dirt behind where wars are fought. Heat is the arena of the suicide bomber. Heat is the molecular transformation. Henry Miller got the dirtiness of sex right but not the distribution of power. Gender might apply to gamelan. The Jews speak funny and we are arrogant and cut under the sinews of language and propriety, notes Cuddihy. Who was Anais Nin? What kind of a name is that? Women travel, men unravel. We drone over fires and wars, we drone among the creations of deterritorializations to the limit, that is our "we" is in respect of the boundaries of the dreams of others. It's awful among anyone. To quote a friend, "I don't like people, they hurt me." But I am hurt among myself and its sovereign. The lack of freedom. Du lac. I drove over it.