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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 solitaire i and ii (this needs time, apologies)
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2017 23:56:10 -0500 (EST)
the solitaire i and ii (this needs time, apologies) http://www.alansondheim.org/kingston200.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/solitaire1.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/solitaire2.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/solitaire3.mp3 solitaire i Wed Dec 27 15:49:06 EST 2017 tired of writing, these arms; tired of thinking, these hands. the swing of the arms: impediment, a pediment falls to the pavement. Wed Dec 27 16:00:43 EST 2017 adding to the other, subtracting from the self. Wed Dec 27 16:01:06 EST 2017 Wed Dec 27 15:49:06 EST 2017 in solitaire, the truth is that of the obdurate, that is a real which is networked only to the extent that the world has a certain style, nothing more. Wed Dec 27 15:52:14 EST 2017 the abandonment of clarity is the clarity of abandonment; the clarity of abandonment is the abandonment of clarity. the absence of the 'Other,' of alterity, is resonant with the disheveled natural order. Wed Dec 27 15:54:43 EST 2017 what is new is beguiled under absence; what is beguiled presents itself beneath the imaginary signifier of beguiling. to beg is to receive the receptor; not to beg is to be at the mercy of the scepter. Wed Dec 27 15:56:24 EST 2017 aphorisms go only so far; there is no further. Wed Dec 27 15:56:51 EST 2017 breathing is always among the solitaires, lasting only as long as the dodo, fighting off other with furious blows of the wings. Wed Dec 27 15:57:37 EST 2017 soon, on my part, and in my name, there will be nothing left to say. there will be no minding, no reminding, no lists, all is always already unfinished. Wed Dec 27 15:58:37 EST 2017 what aphorisms remain after the close of this program? what remains after the close of these eyes? Wed Dec 27 15:59:29 EST 2017 one waits no longer for derailing, which prohibits return; what is derailed is a new railing, always already derailed. Wed Dec 27 16:00:14 EST 2017 subtracting from the other, adding to the self Wed Dec 27 16:01:22 EST 2017 Wed Dec 27 16:01:23 EST 2017 solitaire ii solitaire, solitary person living in solitude, recluse, hermit and large extinct bird which formerly inhabiting the islands of mauritius and rodrigeuz, larger and taller than the wild turkey, flightless. they are noted their sweet songs and retiring habits. called also the invisible bird. the single string plays itself. the dead world. solo music or a singer and a song. the obdurate and natural speechless, where everything is neighborhood. here in this place i cannot write and cannot but write. we drive the stuttered machine into the cold. i dream of a one-string sarangi. i dream i have talent. i will peer into the homes of happy neighbors, will add comment or commentary in the grit of social media, message grid in my teeth as i attempt sleep. oh to think of wealth and accession, access, easy travel, repair, dinner or coffee invitation. the regime is alterity elsewhere. the alterity of the node is faceless. dialog of the dead. always room for error; testability requires the other - standards, protocols, raster. the justification of dreams. But for an invitation out of our home! To that of another! this perhaps explains the music, for example, or the texts or images, still or moving, delving into themselves; there's no one or room at the other end of the line. i feed whatever sound i do back into me, where it churns; i'm drawn into my own resources to work originally, whatever it takes to keep myself going. it's like that. it's like nothing else. enjoy the music; the images and texts as well contribute to the murky outlining of a chthonic philosophy that takes networking, instrumental reason (remember that?) and technology as seriously as it does the phenomenology of the slime mold, the turbulence of the wave wash, and the cultures of the dinosaurs. now or never, proceed. Wed Dec 27 16:23:40 EST 2017 22c22 < dishevelled natural order. --- > dishevelled natural order. Wed Dec 27 16:27:35 EST 2017 . . .