“Language [as] an effect of neural
processing / learning, rather than a
ground or ur-grund” “fading-objects”
“translucencies that shatter” (at the touch)
(glance of the eye) your reading eye
‘my’ so-called reading eye
how it seizes on the ‘part-object’
geared toward foreclosure
the eye (my eye) its hatchet job
the violence of the seizures
among this book or that
“Writing may be made between the ear and the eye and the ear and the eye the eye will be well and the ear will be well.”
Gertrude Stein, How to Write
you do not read you raid
the raiding-reading, hacked texts
nerves, fits, the rolling eye
pen grabbed / words carved
WORDS GOUGED OUT
“You had to drive me to this extremity to wring this simple sentence from me. What a hard time sentences have had till the end, then they tackle me. How much faster and more easily the sentences get through when they are aimed at others.”
Christia Wolf, Cassandra
“It’s the looking of the eyes staring hard”
‘WORDS ARE THRUSTS’
“the work of thinking” are the / and the
“fuzzy domains”
“that we are doomed …
“that we refuse …
“that we are blind …
trauma #1 ________________________
trauma #2 ________________________
trauma #3 ________________________
trauma #4 ________________________
“The reason, maybe, for our altered account of what others have said is our own failure to understand them.”
Goethe, Maxims and Reflections
or ‘they are and are as they are’
on the Street of the Cockroaches
“You lying whore” (shout of a voice
from the street, Lark St., Sat. 2:26 p.m.)
“You whore, you fucking whore”
(same voice, 2:29 p.m.)
“The salesgirls now walked up and down between the rows of books, their faces, like grey parchment, marked with the dark greasy pigment spots of brunettes, their shiny dark eyes shooting out sudden zigzag cockroachy looks.”
Bruno Schulz, The Street of Crocodiles
writing it down, does it belong to me
it doesn’t belong to me, masculinist-misogyny
or else the voice invades the ear
invasion / penetration / occupation
What is the head not a host to?
(‘site of inscription’) itch of the cockroach,
the rustle of roaches in my eyes-ears
interiorities’ continuum of injuries
debris of the voices in the street
am “I” or have “_” been or am now
or am the already past
record/event of the descent
of the virtual into the real
a spectacle that’s been produced
my heavy foot on the stairs
the imaginary (“uncanny
interpenetrations”) “and I was that
effect” – effect of my ascent –
“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts… A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of day. Like city lights, receding…”
William Gibson, Nuromancer
and what kind of person is it
and what type of human is it
that keeps adding more to it
cement, mud, plaster, paste
it took a shit in cyberspace
stamped on or stomped on
who fucked himself for all of you
(the public view) the Jew
in the house on the street
of Cockroaches
“The Street of Crocodiles was a concession of our city to modernity and metropolitan corruption. Obviously, we were unable to afford anything better than a paper imitation, a montage of illustrations cut out from last year’s mouldering newspapers.”
Bruno Schulz, The Street of Crocodiles
are you doing for philosophy
here what another did to poetry
where what is happening here
is a book on a and a
the transfigurative
a ba – dialectic
“To whom should we speak? To what, in fact? Under what circumstances? The knowledge we carry is that of universal processes; perhaps, in our ignorance, we have discovered something even unknown to you? In the Rigveda, there is talk of an unknown god, but we are not concerned here with deity, only with protocol, etiquette: What is the nature of our address?”
Annotation of an excerpt from Kevin Magee / to write as speech
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