Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 18:32:18 -0700
From: Bob/Diane <guevara-AT-rain.org>
Subject: Re: Language?


>The notes on the page signify certain sounds.  But the sounds do not 
>necessarily refer to any specific thing.   A b-flat note played 
>on a violin (I don't know anything about violins or b-flats, but 
>bear with me) doesn't "mean" anything.  However much e.e. cummings 
>(or Pynchon, Simic, etc.) plays with the language, he is merely 
>stretching the boundaries of the system, not working outside it.  I 
>think.
>
>Christopher Honey

so h says something like: (paraphrase) 

when man is drawn into what withdraws, he is a pointer.  pointing to what
withdraws.  in that drawing we are a sign.  but we are pointing toward what
remains uncomprehended.  we are an uninterpreted sign.

christopher.  am i language?

i get that h is talking about "the nothing" calling on me once i am
complete.  yet there is no meaning in this signifier called "me."  *and*
there is no meaning in what withdraws.  it IS emtpy of meaning.  yet i am a
signifier.  i am a sign.

am i merely stretching the boundaries of the system?

does H himself merely stretch the bounderies of the system with his
"invented" language.

christopher.  what is "the system?"


Robert T. Guevara   | guevara-AT-rain.org
Electrical Engineer | guevarb-AT-mugu.navy.mil
Camarillo CA, USA   | http://www.rain.org/~guevara


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