The Alan Sondheim Mail Archive

Thu Aug 10 22:58:47 EDT 2017

k!% now i begin to write a small post about flesh and
vulnerability, a post without image, without the frailty of an
image re-created before this time. what delicacy, what waiting,
for what occurs, for what might occur. last night i thought
cosmology itself foretells the particle physics of untoward fury
in the hands or claws of one organism in the midst of others, or
any number of organisms, each of which may plunge the rest into
darkness and annihilation. i hear the cries now, the changes in
flesh, the colorations

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  Command 'nw' from package 'netrw' (universe)
  Command 'cow' from package 'fl-cow' (universe)
  Command 'nop' from package 'graphviz' (main)
  Command 'new' from package 'nmh' (universe)
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in a form of darkness that clings to the body, to the yes and
their lids, there is nothing. a naked text, one that appears
only among our reading and its afterglow, afterimage. where is
the sickness, the darkness this time, the sun that also rises
and remains in presence, as what was implicit was already in
presence.

all my writing has lures, still and moving images and sounds;
here is nothing, ashes and rags or the memory of ashes and rags,
carrying the text forward going nowhere, a swirl of fires next
time; perhaps these are dying words, choked words, written by
fingers which no longer write, spoken by mouths that no longer
speak, a dispersal thing, of thing of no consequence, not a
kernel or null, not dev/null but /null but / but null; this is
the wrong turn, rung from the fury of elements: know, in this
university, it is not our fault, it is the fault of our stars;
not stars, but the fabric of our world, not that, neti neti: the
fabric itself.

Thu Aug 10 23:18:09 EDT 2017

    81  now i begin to write a small post about flesh and
vulnerability, a post without image, without the frailty of an
image re-created before this time. what delicacy,

k!% more dead.letter
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Thu Aug 10 22:58:47 EDT 2017
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