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imomusWe're ASCII/QWERTY characters on a computerized network. We're opinions. We're links. We're theories and narrative and arguments, we're words, words, words. It passes the time. It's legible. But we're also faces and bodies, we're visible, and sometimes that interesting fact gets forgotten. Sometimes, here in "the wilderness of opinion", that might be rather interesting to see.
So today I want to ask you to do something very simple and obvious. So simple and obvious, in fact, that I've never thought of doing it in four years of blogging. I just want you to post a photograph of yourself, one that shows what you look like, something bigger and more literal than your icon. Show me you, in a human information photograph, down in the comments section. You don't need to say much, just appear, be visual, be here.
Here's me, but you probably know what I look like by now. I certainly do. The interesting bit, for me, is you. The interesting bit begins below. Let's become a visible crowd, a vertical crowd. Let's make an unmasked ball of sorts. Hello!
So today I want to ask you to do something very simple and obvious. So simple and obvious, in fact, that I've never thought of doing it in four years of blogging. I just want you to post a photograph of yourself, one that shows what you look like, something bigger and more literal than your icon. Show me you, in a human information photograph, down in the comments section. You don't need to say much, just appear, be visual, be here.
Here's me, but you probably know what I look like by now. I certainly do. The interesting bit, for me, is you. The interesting bit begins below. Let's become a visible crowd, a vertical crowd. Let's make an unmasked ball of sorts. Hello!
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Date: 2008-03-08 10:58 am (UTC)Full circle!
Date: 2008-03-08 02:56 pm (UTC)Wakefulness
Date: 2008-03-09 02:38 am (UTC)Dear Sir or Momus
After only a week of taking your pills
I confess I am seized with a boundless energy
My plate fills up even as I scarf vegetable fragments
from the lucent blue around us. My firmamant,
as I see it was never this impartial.
The body's discomfiture, bodies of moonlit beggars,
sex in all its strangeness: Everything conspires
to hide the mess of inner living, raze
the skyscraper of inching desire...
...
An immodest little white wine, some scattered seraphs,
recollections of the Fall--tell me,
has anyone made a spongier representation, chased
fewer demons out of the parking lot
where we all held hands?
Little by little the idea of the true way returned to me.
I was touched by your care,
reduced to fawning excuses.
Everything was spotless in the little house of our desire,
the clock ticked on and on, happy about
being apprenticed to eternity. A gavotte of dust motes
came to replace my seeing. Everything was as though
it had happened long ago
in ancient peach colored funny papers
wherein the law of true opposites was ordained
casually. Then the book opened by itself
and read to us: "You pack of liars,
of course tempted by the crossroads, but I like each and every one of you with a peculiar sapphire intensity.
Look, here is where I failed at first.
The client leaves. History natters on,
rolling distractedly on these shores. Each day a dawn condenses like a very large star, bakes no bread,
shoes the faithless. How convenient if it's a dream."
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J.a.
(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-08 03:22 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-08 06:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-08 08:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-09 10:09 am (UTC)hola
Date: 2008-03-09 06:17 am (UTC)here is a special sultry one!
Date: 2008-03-10 07:55 pm (UTC)re: hello,
Date: 2008-03-14 11:07 pm (UTC)I have been reading your blog for years. (mostly in silence)
x-Vivian Ritchie
(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-15 07:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-12-30 08:28 am (UTC)