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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: the rink
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 16:00:33 -0500 (EST)
the rink http://www.alansondheim.org/therink.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/therink.mp4 in hockey, you move from one end of the rink to another in ice skating, you go round and round the rink a rink is a plate a shallow a plane surrounded a rink is a shallow plate a plate-like shallow a plain a rink has no edges is a circulation a vortex an eddy a whistling rink is indeed a thin tine a fipple a domain a rink is the integration of a strange attractor within the rink negation is without the rink within the rink there are kindly mothers and fathers almost one says kindly almost among the cold and cold wind the cold wind of the rink circulates the rink the circumambulation of the rink the circumlocution the circumference of the rink the circumstances without the rink there is within the rink in 50 mph winds and -5 windchill we stopped at the Biltmore at 2:30 in the morning they gave us hungrey-ending bars we headed back out towards the rink we entered the rink the rink was tended by men and women the men and women were working in the rink they were working in the signifier they were tending the signifier they were tending the rink we intruded on the almost holy task of working and tending it was called a terrible beauty where memories were made communities were made where memories were circumstances in the rink memories were circumstances
