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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Uncanny Worlds of Dimensions among Open Sets
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 01:59:38 -0500 (EST)
Uncanny Worlds of Dimensions among Open Sets http://www.alansondheim.org/ghosttracks1.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/ghosttracks2.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/ghosttracks3.jpg Falling asleep, insomniac, hysteric-depressive, coming into play and form, I work among uncanny objects, misted spaces; ghosttracks1, continuous paths among octahedra and other shapes in which upper and lower polygons are connected by triangles, how to do this among them, examples octahedra, beautiful paths and side tracks; ghosttracks2, continuous octahedron tracking with bypassing, side tracks as if afterthoughts, towards an otherwise incomprehensible view, these circulations continuing night after night, polyhedra glimmering across nebulae, the faintest glimmer of stars; ghosttracks3, the most elaborate, sets of dimensions 0, 1, 2, 3, each sweeping across the next highest, i.e. n sweeps n+1, each half an n-sphere whose n-1 boundaries are closed, whose n boundaries are open, a point and then a ray, a ray and then an open disk, a lune and then a half-sphere, object with only one each of 0, 1, 2, 3, flats bounded by n-1 disks, of all elements only 4, cuts and slice, interiors and exteriors, the breathings of open sets, beating of closed boundaries from the sides of them, as if there were bridges to cross, one each of everything in the world that is the world; and there are other, more complex shapes and dimensional constructs, where were we in the fogs, so many ghosts and tracks, slippages, memories, instrusions as of quartz among phyllite, and the memories of quartz and phyllite, calming, luster, indescribable sheen, hypnagogic, memories of childhoods among nebulae and the birth of stars ...