The Alan Sondheim Mail Archive

March 30, 2014


Clarissa Haligonia


Clarissa, Gull Signaling

http://www.alansondheim.org/signals.mov

Clarissa, Coming and Going

http://www.alansondheim.org/coming.jpg
http://www.alansondheim.org/going.jpg

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ne 11, yo say, that the man gave it me. I

  say, that the man gave it me. I
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ld not permit that, thold not help the

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ld not help the
t I wo
pon the man. Yoy dear, find that out, by
'll easily, my dear, find that o
'll easily, my dear, find that ot, by

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work
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ggling nder the operation

nder the operation
betrayed back to the vile ho
as yoy dreadful case) I as yo
  shall hear, was my dreadfight then, perhaps,
  shall hear, was my dreadf
l case) I might then, perhaps,
l case) I might then, perhaps,

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sh-colosh-colo
red, and I know not how
red, and I know not how

t were yo to see yo
  to see yor poor Clarissa now (or even to

r poor Clarissa now (or even to
myself. B
ld not think her bloated, or flo
red -
  wo
  wold not be me yo
ld not. In a word, it cor

ld not be me yoindeed yo
r
  wo

palliation. The latter I am not conscio not conscious that I
need. I should
palliation. The latter I am not conscio
s that I need. I shos that I need. I sho
ld
ld

sable, were I g. And

ilty of the former to yobe
. And
tterly inexc
  knew how my heart sinks nder the tho
nder the thoghts of a

ghts of a
yet, if yo
recollection so painfed, yoe. As I shall not be
recollection so painfed, yo
ld pity me. As I shall not be
ld pity me. As I shall not be

and to syself Your ever affectionate and obliged
and to s
bscribe myself Yobscribe myself Yo
r ever affectionate and obliged
r ever affectionate and obliged

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t at Hampstead: strangely foe out;
t;

nd me oNight EE had fo
t;
nd me o

my billet of the 9th, to tell yoy billet of the 9th, to tell you
so, for fear of giving you
my billet of the 9th, to tell yo
  so, for fear of giving yo so, for fear of giving yo

  for, throshorter and happier iss
gh yoe to acco
ld rge, ineffect
rge, ineffectal, to prevail

al, to prevail
and all Captain Tomlinson co
pon me to forgive an oeditated, rested
pon me to forgive an o
trage so flagrantly premeditated, rested
trage so flagrantly premeditated, rested

e. In my y
ncertain sit
ncertain sitation, my

ation, my
Lawrence and Miss Montag

Budge/t video

http://www.alansondheim.org/ice09.jpg
http://www.alansondheim.org/budget.mp4
http://www.alansondheim.org/ice30.jpg

This is a 11x sped-up video of large ships and a Nor'easter in
Nova Scotia. Everything's ice-bound. The ships move slowly in
the open water. The back-hoe was slow as well. The full video is
11' in length; for online I sped it up to 1'1". It's a different
video. I'm interested at the moment in blankness, inertness, the
deeply obdurate of the real. On some of the sections I've used
10x echo at +/-.05 to structure the movement; with the largest
ship, there's just a slight blurring of outline. It's that slow,
that deliberate. The backhoe is framed by text and windows at a
media center. These forces resonate for me with the smoothed
hard granite boulders at Peggy's Cove and Mahone Bay, and with
the fragility of the basal metazoan glade of the ctenophores
washed up in advanced of last week's blizzard. Everything
impinges, and the nub of a prow impinges greatly.

I open up this section with an image of an International Telecom
ship's antenna farm, and close it with an image from the
icestorm. In between, there's the budget video; the title of the
full version is budge.

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