Subject: [a]nim(bus)a(w)l wild facing...
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 15:08:40 EST


[a]nim(bus)a(w)l wild facing,
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and how, "below the level of language (///)" poisoning the assertable
he(a)re [while whirygiging some posts of late, {Edward's and Ariosto's}],
and in waters crystal play, 
words have confessed "what they are unable to say." (De Certeau in Raggo,
 Mon 9 March). 

A "once upon a time...", or " "In the days when animals could talk," an
even more perfect Open Sesame than "Once upon a time."[....] the act of
speaking or telling, and even the storyteller himself, that withdraws
this way to an infinite distance." (Leiris, _Scratches_, 129). And then
there's the 'circus'. 

[a]nim(bus)a(w)l wild facing,
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and how "absence" dissolves ways _back_ from 'an infinite distance', a
"need that perfects the transparency, the suffering which makes the
suffering become joyful" as Bataille penned in "The Absence of Myth"
(_The Absence of Myth_, p. 48), pointed at "like a finger before an
indeterminante audience" by Edward [Sat, 7 March] - and to which, with a
Cratyalusian finger, as kairos techne stirred and Empedocles'd over-Etna,
a 're'-$ponse was given: the Fx  F-Ca over Dante, (_Par_., XXVI, 97-99)
and under La Fontaine (_Fables_, book VIII, # iv). That "absence" as the
'bar' ring-wrung which in "Sigh-lance" (sent to disaster-AT-pd.org) turned
to pages of _The Writing of the Disaster_, esp., 88-90 (and now even
{'a'-_passim_/opossum}). [laughter]. Yes, "'Night is also a sun', and the
absence of myth is also a myth: the coldest, the purest, the only _true_
myth." (Bataille, [(_o(p.,]ossum cit.,_, 48). [laughter]. 

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...and now to "(ef-) face..." that  ""Sovereignty is NOTHING" (G.B.)" (in
_The Writing of the Disaster_, p. 90) as this thine dope-{trop[e}rrant]-$
along, semantically deviant, wild telling you a story as "un animal
coverto broglia" (Dante, yet another [(_o(p.,]ossum cit.,_),
scratch-sl/ash-scratching (-////-) a "plastic indicator" of a silk worms
'new-ounce' of the madder of grammer colored rose (and here left to a
dearer soul; Samuel's, t/here also as  "un animal coverto broglio" to
Blanchot's "A rose is a rose..." from _The Infinite Coversation_, pp.
339-344). And there again a _mise en abyme_, as a mirror thrown in
another's other Night, for "Who will hide from the fire that does not
set?" as Heraclitus (to mention Blanchot's _The Work of Fire_, and p.
303-304), since [(as I have been told/tolled], the fire's over,
over-there). 

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...and now to those whirlygiged references in  Ari-'a' -s "Mysticism and
animality" [Mon 9 March] marching into "Das Nichts nichtet" (and who
gives a Carnap's _Logical Positivism..._ as fore-paw to its
sticky-critique) - since Ockham will shave it (_contra_ Carnap himself)
with a razor. And this, Gee! - Let's us to sea/see what Ockham said about
the _fictum / figmentum_. Yes, Ari, there in the 'nature of universal
concept', and _contra_ Scotus' . (see Ockham, _Summa totius logicae_, I,
c, xv, xiv, xvi, and 
_Ordinatio_, D. II, Q, viii, prima redactio).  Shall we march-t/here
counting hares, born open-eyed to "act" a universal? [Gongorian laughter
to your Quevedian wit]. But of course, and thus De Certeau, right? What
the 'haecceity'! Etre-ange sings receiving all pre-dica-tes. Mi dica.
What form! [laughter]. And then there's Heidegger; your Heidegger with
his Duns Scotus habilitation (1915) tucked under the waves of _SZ_,
creating an undertow (just check out his letter to Lowith, Aug 20, 1927,
in _Zur philosopischen Aktualitat Heideggers_ 2:36f), a littoral to what
sets sail upon _SZ_'s sea.  Haecceitas! Sea/see?! =  t/here. Close hey?,
even though " "giveness" already manifests a categorical determination".
(Heidegger, _Fruhe Schriften_, 1972,  p. 260). Too precious for some, but
speculative grammer enough for you dear Ari. (see [(_o(p.,]ossum cit.,_)
p. 277, "which orginates in the use of expressions in living thinking and
knowing."). Ecce _modus essendi activus_! With t/here's awl as Eckhartian
'gemuet' (h/ear/t), and here we hear the swarms flying ear/[t-h]-words.
Hear phenomena! Ecce Teresa's 'a'rrow. Ecce St. John of the Cross' Dark
Night drawn to a later 'Da - li' (there - there [as in the Sicilian]).
Just go to Avila. So(wn), here I blur, "si amores me han de matar, Agora
tienen lugar" (if love has to kill me, it has its chance), since "Vole
tan alto, tan alto que di a la caza alcance" (I flew so high, so high
that I reached my quarry). 

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...and with Heidegger's_Basic Questions of Philosophy_ I leave you, at #
31, "The end of the first beginning and the preparation for another
beginning", a), b), _et., (o)p(o)ss(u)m_, esp., # 37, # 38, a) through
j), and head to my 'salvadera', where I "errar/herrar" encore (as Quevado
has it in the prologue of "The Vision of Hell" in _Dreams_), dropping a
note on-the-back-of-words as [a]nim(bus)a(w)l wild facing, 

entre chien et loup dans
lalangue trespasses, 'a'
Lucio }laughter{ etre-ange (and) Privy-Thelos

--[ Note: the show: "Self-Taught Artists of the 20th Century" will travel
to these venues:
 High Museum of Art, Atlanta, July 14- Sept 20; Modern Art Museum, Fort
Worth, Texas, Oct 31, 1998 - Jan 24, 1999;  Memorial Art Gallery,
Rochester, NY, Feb 20- April 18, 1999; and the Wexner Center for the
Arts, Columbus, Ohio, May 7 - Aug 15, 1999.  Another thingy, and a little
late, Mercedes Allendesalzar, Patricia Dailey and Emile Zum Brunn are
giving a seminar at the College International de Philosophie, Paris,
Univ. 7, Salle RC4, on "La mystique et ses hotes", 17 March, 7 April, and
12 May. Eckhart, Marguerite Porete, Hadewijch d' Anvers, Therese d'Avila,
and Freud, ventriloquisme, Levinas' "hospitalite", along with Derrida's
version and fun stuff like that will be tossed around. ] -- 

--- still 'a' sting- 're'. [laughter]. 





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