Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 12:24:18 -0800
Subject: Cawling?


> a call or covenant that does not constitute an a priori
> element in our identity....

...generous and affirmative misreadings, defamiliarization, consensus
w/out unanimity, happy contestation (w/out competition)...

are we "constantly contaminated by otherness" so much as by time, or in
more profound (deeper, subtler) ways than generally thought?  That
illegibility "outside language" not interrupting reading so much (or
writing, for that matter) as rereading (or rewriting).

Though univocal, can Being ever be rewritten or reread?

> If so, and in belonging
> to the other proximity, we, reeling, respond to that cry or call always
> already _before_ them.

And so filtered?  Some of us have little holes, some big.  Get dizzy in
malls or hardware stores?  You have big holes, but that's okay, really!

Lyotard's difficulty in thinking before an empty screen... ah, the rain
of stilled speech (inside & out)!  Ari's "cultivation of floating
attention," like his slow, meditative reading, is the way Bataille
suggests we can pick up the all important _obscure determinations_. 
Firmness, however, I'm leary of.

> "Obsession is irreducible to consciousness".  

As is a matured ethics, like dreams, an orgasm, or the boiling of
watched pots.

Sorry, gotta quit here, more to say, wanted to connect all or most of
the above to Deleuze's notion that "To fill a space, to be distributed
within it, is very different from distributing the space" (_DR_).

So, with a nod consistent with a
language that is not language (as the chaos 
in which we live would have it) so much as
phrases,

Don Socha