Subject: Re: non thing things
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 06:30:52 +0000


Don't worry K, I'll respond to your post on Jan's Levinas text. I just 
haven't had the time yet. But I'm glad you're reading it.

Kenneth Johnson wrote:

>i dunno, where its' IS is, all goin' on and on on listserv here, not about
>iraq o course, that's a no brainer, we got bigger guns, but what i mean is,
>where are all the people-ized thinged thingys who have rented investimental
>space here on h, goin?
>
>not a predominance of folk here who feel this questiion is absolutely vital
>because, o' course, folk here, in general, are fit up titely inside a drug
>store prescriptive "self" glove, and this pre-scriptive self glove
>sartainly no's where it's goin, as all the theys here, on h, have bin givin
>invite, say, to a poetry web offering of shit, dun brained roans stampeding
>down the well worn stamped down trail where their keyboards are their
>sixguns and their aim is to establish bullshit as the most desirably
>desired thinged thing
>
>it is one thing to be confused at the subjective level about one's being in
>the world, but it ain't knoble not to know, that this 'youed' one's being
>is not this youed one's being
>
>it's a lot of trouble to be a humaned being today, the choices of concepts
>are overwhelming, growing ever more firm as science "proves" that this
>incidental thing  or that incidental thing really really really is
>this/that incidental thing, we know because "we have instruments" etc. - -
>- - -
>
>the universe is a swirling of forces moving from here to there, and one of
>these forces is grammar, the ability for being to name itself resides
>entirely within itself and here, on the surface of this odd rote orbiting
>planet, being applies that innered ability and is grateful to itself for
>the chance so to do, but, it is so fuckingggggggggggly lost inside the
>pornographic immediacy of the rush toward 'the truth'
>
>
>so, as Life, and certainly not as me, I, Life, say, to my many selfed
>cloniholics, forget, forget about the merely tributarial, like all those
>merely grammered up things, like gods
>
>god, what a bottle full of spider webs that tributary of candycarnalized
>unicornilized force inheres with
>
>and, for a moment at least, forget "facts", like anxiety, fuck anxiety, it
>only names something unicorn.like , or i mean, it names something that
>exists its name but that does not exist as any part of existence beyond
>that name and it is not only the rats who live out their whole lives inside
>the burrow of daylight metaphors
>
>
>every thing, for us, is wrapped up in style, the rendering of our
>being-selves as amour, as 'loving' (don't ever investigate the origin of
>that sentiment in company)
>
>heard the sound of a wave that could drown the whole world
>
>heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listening
>
>and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a harrrrddd
>rain's a' gonna fallllllllllllllllllllllll
>
>get with it Life, reclaim your self "as" your its' self, ay?
>
>not as some christianized licensed, islamic licensed, bhuto the millionth
>other 'we trust in god' piles of shit licensed - - -
>
>(detritus)
>
>i no i no, it's is is a nice trip, good to feel selfed, and to feel your
>selfed self favored by the intricate rote of some in.trick.ated super man,
>but
>
>by the godded gods,
>
>x
>
>
>
>
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