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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 Stone Raised in the Roots of the Fallen Tree
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 19:14:29 -0400 (EDT)
The Stone Raised in the Roots of the Fallen Tree http://www.alansondheim.org/akkad808.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/akkad809.jpg The stone was raised in the roots of the fallen tree, when the tree fell. The stone, as are others, is suspended in the roots of the tree. This is an event of long duration, perhaps from an hour to a century, the stone suspended in the tree. The stone will fall, and when it falls, the event will end, and there will be no such history, the traces of suspension and fall eliminated in the usual progression of things. Also, no one else, I am assuming, perhaps without reason, has noticed this particular stone and its suspension. What constitutes an event, an occurrence, a happening (and these are often differently classified), is linguistically and culturally determined, and a caught stone may have no such determination. Most of what goes on in the world, most of its goingness, has no record, and the longer the duration of a going-on, the less, perhaps, it may be noticed. Now there are two horizons - climate change, for example (and millions of other examples) in which subtleties of long duration are noted, classified, studied, and annotated; and what one might call the horizon of the digital, within which there is an impetus towards the totalization of well-ordered classification, and a somewhat unstated belief (at least at times) in the permanence of such classification (as if there were a collocation for example of data-banks and their interrelationships, organized in such a manner that the digital world, from the IOT on, appears safe and secure, warding off death in spite of technological obsolescence in its ever- evolving containers) in which the world in all its depth is _charted._ Well, we're there, in the sense that the unnoticed may well be considered non-existent, stone raised or not. Or the stone ending up in one or another tourist photograph, or not. Or the stone never fallen, or always already having been raised, having been fallen, or not. It is inconceivable. History in this sense is inconceivable. It is difficult to move beyond that. It is the easiest thing in the world to move beyond that, and that is our problem, not the world's, a problem we refuse to recognize, perhaps not to perceive as well. 8c8 < tree fell. The stone, as are others, is suspended in the roots --- > tree fell. The stone, as are others, is suspenced in the roots 1,32c1,31 < 0a1,31 < > < > I think of this as the collapse of the _network_ into the < > _punctum._ 27,28c27,28 < I think of this as the collapse of the < _network_ into the _punctum._ --- > I think of this as the collapse of the _network_ into the > _punctum._ 31c31 < +++ --- > - - - +++