The Alan Sondheim Mail Archive

World, The Fun Three-Second Game, The Base


http://www.alansondheim.org/azure.jpg
http://www.alansondheim.org/wrld.mp3 (voice and gusle)
  -- wonderful song, unusual accompaniment

The Fun Three-Second Game

Train yourself to enter ./date every three seconds!
Caveat: No second-counting! Be in the moment!
My first results!:

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The Base

kumu, bottom, base, foundation; teacher, manual, primer;
  reason, cause; an article bought, sold, or exchanged
kumuhana, topic, subject; work source
kumu hele, crotch; source of going
kumu hipa, flock of sheep
kumu honua, beginning of the world, origin of the earth
kumuipukukui, lamp; base light bowl
kumu kahi, origin, beginning
kumukanawai, source of laws
kumulani, base of the sky, horizon
kumu niu, trunk of the coconut tree
kumu waiwai, source of wealth, resources, capital

wa, period of time; epoch, era; space, interval, as
  between objects; channel

(modified from Pukui/Elbert, New Pocket Hawaiian Dictionary)

living on borrowed time


http://www.alansondheim.org/living.jpg
http://www.alansondheim.org/living.mp3
http://www.alansondheim.org/lived.jpg

viola with azure's song borrowers

the viola attempts subterranean holocaust
all our time is borrowed
all our time is lived by an other
the face, levinas, is never our own
the face into our interior of damaged roots
but the viola attempts nothing
the face attempts, face cries out
borrows, this face, this other
unalive, this face, this other
of approach to the high note, high tower
of approach, delay of approach
the small house inside our skin, beneath
the higher note, the higher tower
"look, it's this way"
always already, preparation for holocaust
always already, holocaust
unalive, this name, this same
these names, peoples, these unalive

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wa, space, time, period
waa, canoe
(Judd, The Hawaiian Language, 1912)