Subject: Re:Sarduy:Texts for Nothing
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 20:54:11 PDT


>bloody yanks

hmmm... is that a reference to Mirbeau's _The Torture Garden_? the 
episode in which the fellow is subjected to "death by caress"?
Ah! But it can't be, because:

>    writing is useless. It does nothing to rescue those who are swept
>away by a sea of lava, who lie already beneath that stone.

Yours is a matter-oriented view.  Let me ask you: Why did you write this 
message?  Why ... when all your actions operate like writing?!

>    Blink your eyes, string a phrase together, and an entire city has
>been buried, every sleeping citizen petrified, the children hugging
>their toys, their dogs: porous statues of larva.

And I say: ALL THE BETTER!  The writer knows that this earth holds 
nothing for him -- or her (hi Beatrice)-- ... Yes, the writer inscribes 
his, or her (this is beginning to sound like _Life of Brian_), 
extra-hylic ideas, impressions, exasperations, etc., on the tender 
bodies of those "citizens" (the children too!) -- operating quite like 
that machine in Kafka's _The Penal Colony_.  The writer cares not for 
"sleeping citizens."  In fact, the writer despises them. The writer is 
like New York City: he (or she) never sleeps ...    

>    writing pressumes a lack of awareness, or slight irresponsibility,
>on the part of the one who forgets or wades while, caught in the magma,
>the precipitous shroud solidifying around her, a little girl asks her
>mother to pray.

Sorry Sarduy, but that's not how it is at all.  Writing is a struggle 
against lack, against irresponsibility -- AND I'M TALKING ABOUT THAT 
GREATER RESPONSIBILITY TO THE SELF.  It is an immortality dependent upon 
_matter_.  And it is tainted.  The writer does not need to pray, does 
not need a mother, for the writer is not only his (or her) own father, 
mother, son, and self, but also his (or her) own god ... or God.

Peace on earth and mercy mild ...

Edward Moore
monsieurtexteEM-AT-hotmail.com


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