Subject: automatic stone(d) stepping
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 19:56:25 PDT




... silence is that white gloss painted over the solidity of being and 
being's raving(ravenous be[com]ing): a rhythmic enhancement of Time.

Silence is what is exterior to Thought ... Thought's border or periphery 
(_Horos_), the eye of which reflects the infinite gaze of our own Eye, 
and distills meaning in the finite yet flowing deep of the I.  
Contemplation of Silence leads to a duo-fold grasping that is inscribed 
(as) loss -- the career of Logos over the cliffs and across the plains 
and flats of a land of concepts ... exterio-totalitarian emphasis placed 
on adequation and the blind croaking Azathothic god(dess) called 
'consiliation'.  

Silence is the space wherein our duality collides unknowingly with the 
imposed interpretations of the Other.  Fecund silence, though, the 
pregnant Thought of the Beyond-I, of what, in purity, attempting to give 
us to creativity, instead opened the path to being's end, is the 
un-concealed, un-echoed murmur of a primal mode of thought, or thinking, 
that cannot enter into contact with being(s)-in-the-world in (its) 
purity.  Silence appears in its wake as inaction, as rebellion -- a 
hoax.  And whatever meaning lies behind that hoax must of necessity 
remain cloaked in gnostic perambulations about the textual realm -- an 
endless flirtation with philosophy, a sexual encounter with, a seduction 
of, religion ....

Reading aloud, then, to intertwine my thread(s) with verbiage --; When 
Artaud lauds so the declaimed verse, seeing it as the sole means of 
awakening the slumbering hieroglyphics of an atemporal thrust of thought 
('On the Chimeras', _Watchfiends and Rack Screams_: 1995, p. 62), he 
feels/fears salvation to be the mergence with the world of beings, of 
nature -- a nature so pure as to remain forever bodiless.  When Artaud 
plays with the word 'remanate' (p. 59), it is clear that what is at 
stake is not an event as cataclysmic and profoundly final as the Gnostic 
idea of the remergence of the 'spark' with the Un-Begotten Father, but 
rather an e(X)ternal and circular renewal through a re-merging "with the 
principle of generative slime" (p. 52). A claustrophobically 
un-exhilarating and scathingly _hylic_ notion.

A certain violence is done to the written word when one shakes it from 
its self-sufficient stupor by shouting out its syllables to the vampiric 
air/ear.  This mergence with sound, brought about by violence done to 
the 'casing' or 'carrier' of that primal mode of thinking, derived from 
the origin in the un-begotten, muffles the inherent meaning of the Word, 
and drives both victim and thief on to a mo(ve)ment of _adequation_.  
Nothing is truly lost here, simply placed aside indefinitely.

     "The particular automatic character of a walk or a dance 
     to music is a mode of being where nothing is unconscious,
     but where consciousness, paralyzed in its freedom, plays,
     totally absorbed in this playing"
      (Levinas, 'Reality and its shadow', _The Levinas Reader_:
      1989, p. 133).

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~~ Edward













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