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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Birds and Mood, Birds and Saz
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 17:37:32 -0500 (EST)
Birds and Mood, Birds and Saz From an Estonian bird webcam, participants were green finches, tree sparrows, and grey tits. The weather in Providence, another dark and rainy day. Last night there were bar fights that spilled onto the streets, the left front door of our building was smashed and we heard screams but couldn't see anything. Today I went to the barber's around the corner; he had a hunting show on the television and the haircut was punctuated by laughter over the birds and animals killed. The one magazine available was Playboy. This isn't your Roger Williams' Providence, this is the retribution of Winthrop, Cotton, and company. So I recorded the birds, which were beautiful and arguing over food, and made two pieces. Celan would have approved, Jabes would have wondered where the book was, and Blanchot would have called everything I do a disaster. http://www.alansondheim.org/birdsandmood.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/birdsandsaz.mp3 Weep, stranger, nothings stranger.