Arithmetic http://www.alansondheim.org/warehouse1.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/warehouse2.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/warehouse3.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/warehouse4.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/warehouse5.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/warehouse6.jpg The oldest person in the U.S. just died at 114. I'm 76; that would give me only another 38 years. But probably before 100, perhaps 24 years but most likely before 85, another 9 years. I've written the "internet text" for 26 years; the text might continue for another 9. But if I can no longer continue... perhaps another 4, perhaps 30. And then what would I do? A great emptiness beyond, all that silly writing, music, image, video, god knows what else - virtual worlds, mocap, theory, poetics, vlf and sw radio, natural order of things - all that would disappear, contribute nothing; it's as if I'd disappeared in my own life, collapsed to a forgotten point, not even "what happened to?". That would be it; I'd hollow out to a shell, to a wasteland, to babble, to burning archives, drowning instruments, not even whispers, mumbles, asides, footnotes in that burning, drowning, world... Azure, my Beloved, Azure... In the warehouse, all the dreams disappear, this 19th-century bldg. storing decades of remnants, I wandered there creating this small sample, the building to be torn down, already torn down?, by the violent and bad development company that built the Barclay Arena across from our small loft building - we had to leave for so many reasons as you know - there were 2 documentaries about that, there was a book about that, Brooklyn Wars - here's our lives in pieces - do the poetics yourself - photographed the space as best I could - old enough that there was a 'road' up the side for horses to draw wagons - no elevators - astonishing space - at least a hundred photographs - a small sampling - the collapse of Benjamin's arcade - every day this violence here, now - wherever we are - it follows us - amerikkka - let's occupy wall street - let's rock and roll - let's rock 'n roll - let's rock - see where that gets us - that gets us - - spaces! - debris! - rubble! - grit! - remains! - archaeology of nothing! - nothing at all! - Nothing! +++ (EOF End Of File 1. The {out-of-band} value returned by {C}'s sequential character-input functions (and their equivalents in other environments) when end of file has been reached. This value is -1 under {C} libraries postdating V6 Unix, but was originally 0. 2. The keyboard character (usually control-D, the ASCII EOT (End Of Transmission) character) that is mapped by the {Unix} terminal driver into an end-of-file condition. [{Jargon File}] (1995-01-18)) +++ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
