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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Why Writing on the Move
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 22:09:53 -0400 (EDT)
Why Writing on the Move Why writing on the move? It's the thinnest mode of transmission, perhaps lower ascii one of the thinnest of all, given the providence of low code requirements - that is to say for example that the old Morse dot-dash translates into letter and then the rest follows - that is to say, most likely following Eco, a double encoding. So that it can occur on the run, so that it moves path-wise from internals to externals and then to the world and its noisy semiological theoretics. But the first stage, that of the writing while, for example, I'm attempting to sleep or shuddering yet again at the end of a difficult day - the first stage, like Speer on his walks, is an anywhere event, providing of course any pain, physical or otherwise, is sufficiently dull or somnolent to permit a field of thought and thought's operations, entangled, at play. So that it requires very little apparatus, as if speech itself would do, in the absence of any other technology pursuant to speech's preservation, or at least the gist of speech, minus the acrobatics of emotion or voice or tonal structure. I think of this as the bringing-up of speech during the move, or the movement of speech, bringing up the world and its inhabitation. And something which does not require an occasion, such as this.