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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: We've got a blizzard
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 16:56:58 -0400 (EDT)
(apologies for so many posts today - the weather swallowed us - this won't continue) We've got a blizzard and in the geographical whitespace center there are unimaginable occurrences just behind the whitespace of the eyes http://www.alansondheim.org/blizzard09.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/blizzarda08.mp4 video down the street, the lens freezes over with ice the camera comes close to freezing, I run inside, remove the battery and card, dry everything out wrapped in towels then run to the window where I record more furious sounds - years ago in similar I fell into the winter ocean at Peggy's Cove, there was rind ice, I half pulled myself out, was half pulled out by I think Robin Collyer not sure, people die at the spot every year, the tourists come in the thousands in summer - I'm fascinated by the white blankness in the image centers, reminded of 19th-century maps of the Canadian north, where nothing was filled in, and land and sea impossible in the details; this is also the imaginary of the dream, or Lacan's imaginary, or the placelessness of the hypnagogic, or the threat of the abject in the real, but now - now there's a gas leak in downtown Halifax near the College, the whole area's cordoned off, it's all over the news - the winds are furious! it's exhilarating!
