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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 Interval
Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 15:03:33 -0400 (EDT)
The Interval [ http://www.alansondheim.org/interval.jpg ] [ May 28, 2018, 5 minutes ago ] [ http://www.alansondheim.org/musicland.mp4 ] [ Aug 18 2017 ] Mon May 28 16:32:45 EDT 2018 Mon May 28 16:32:45 EDT 2018 -- Mon May 28 16:40:44 EDT 2018 i'm within the interval; it's safe responding within this echo-box, in other words you only hear what appears at -37 db because of the depths of solitude, critically important to thought and thinking, almost untoward in the aegis of the pressure of the real - this is why you remain here - are you with your companion, you are not alone, only here in the sense of inner speech, for example you may imagine a better world, and then what? your desires create turmoil, never secret, always in the form of a carapace or cicatrix, this is reasonable clarity you believe.[---------------] [---------------] = "i can face myself in the interval," the consequence of this elaborate framework, what will become, you assume, a broken structure at any moment. [----------] where am i now? within the interval, always within the interval, Zeno notwithstanding; how could it be otherwise, given what we understand, now, about the phenomenology and mathematics of limits? ----------->] = "where was i then" - no way otherwise to answer this query? to tell everything - what does "to tell" mean in this circumstance? to speak everything? to designate? to acknowledge the impossibility of designation? you write here in a coffeeshop, is that satisfactory? does that cover all the bases? biases? what is a covering in this situation? i am in the midst of this text: to the "addenda: where are you" - what one assumes is a query calling forth one or another covering; through the covering, the interval is sutured, confined, as if it were possible to transform an open set into a closed, without the circumlocution of a path of circumambulation. --Mon May 28 16:40:44 EDT 2018 [--------------------- Mon May 28 16:32:45 EDT 2018 i'm within the interval; it's safe responding within this echo-box, in other words i only hear what appears at -37 db because of the depths of solitude, critically important to thought and thinking, almost untoward in the aegis of the pressure of the real - this is why i remain here - i am with my companion, i am not alone, only here in the sense of inner speech, for example i may imagine a better world, and then what? my desires create turmoil, never secret, always in the form of a carapace or cicatrix, this is reasonable clarity i believe.[---------------] [---------------] = "i can face myself in the interval," the consequence of this elaborate framework, what will become, i assume, a broken structure at any moment. [----------]where are you now? within the interval, always within the interval, Zeno notwithstanding; how could it be otherwise, given what we understand, now, about the phenomenology and mathematics of limits? ----------->] = "where were you then" - no way otherwise to answer this query? to tell everything - what does "to tell" mean in this circumstance? to speak everything? to designate? to acknowledge the impossibility of designation? i write here in a coffeeshop, is that satisfactory? does that cover all the bases? biases? what is a covering in this situation? Mon May 28 16:47:06 EDT 2018 Mon May 28 20:03:31 EDT 2018 Tue May 29 14:20:01 EDT 2018 Tue May 29 15:01:03 EDT 2018