Subject: Edward Moore: _Uniqueness_
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 1997 18:23:45 PDT


There is only one moment of uniqueness, this we know. The originary
moment when the individual body establishes a presence in history
that makes waves. This moment cannot be captured again, for then it
would no longer be unique.

I can speak of my unique experience of a Work, however. There is no
difficulty there, for each work exudes an infinite number of realms.

In this case, speech is no barrier. I know my moment.

BUT -- if I wish or aim for READING, then I can only proceed by
categorizing my experience as one of many individual or unique 
experiences, making it no longer unique... I DO open up a space,
however -- a space that is filled with an unexpressed or isolated
idea of ME, or of MINE, and this space is no space at all... it is
an un-uttered moment of history that is known but not preserved.

Can a reading be unique? Rather, I should ask: can a reading be 
written about uniquely? Expressed so? Certainly. But that written
reading, that perhaps critical text, will not be a critical text, 
or a description of a reading -- not if it is to be unique... then 
it will be a new moment unattached to, but not independent of, the
text from which it proceeded, the _read_ text....


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