Date:        Tue, 04 Jun 1996 13:12:39 EDT
From: Karen Ocana <BJFC-AT-musicb.mcgill.ca>
Subject: Re[2]: BwO & bKO


>.  Inexhaustible because the hand doesn't
>> just inhabit all of the up and down and across strokes of the writing but
>> all of the states of transition between them too.  The hand as BwO.
>> Writing liking conducting an orchestra that won't stop. Schumann.
>>

"Give me your hand:

Now I'm going to tell you how I went into that inexpressiveness that
was always my blind, secret quest.  How I went into what exists
between the number one and the number two, how I saw the mysterious,
fiery line, how it is a surreptitious line.  Between two musical notes
there exists another note, between two facts there exists another
fact, between two grains of sand, no matter how close together they
are, there exists an interval of space, there exists a sensing
between sensing--in the interstices of primordial breating, and the
world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.

It was n't by using any of my attributes as an instrument that I was
reaching the mysterious calm fire of that something that is plasma--
it was precisely by stripping myself of all attributes and going
on with just my living innards.  To arrive at athat point, I was
leaving my human organization behind--in order to go into that
monstrous thing that is my living neutrality. "

>From _The Passion according to G. H._ by Clarice Lispector.ut air
Trans. Ronald W. Sousa (Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press, 1988)

I know nothing about Lispector, yet.  I find though that this
resonates with Artaud, and also Blanchot (what i've read of his).

Thanks Gilboa for posting Artaud's manifesto!!!!!

15 seconds of brilliance, pah!!  I have been an idiot for much
longer than that.

Karen Ocan~~~~a

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