[Note from the Electronic Poetry Center. This is actually DIU 13.] ------------------------------------------------------------------ DIU 9-25-94 18 A reply to newsletter (snowflake): a tension of action which all things become in forlorn places where some outcast people find place at last and others wander with an open and unplaceable heart in this most enforced of all wildernesses -Edward Dorn Re-read also: Corbin chapter (section) on archetypal persons in CYCLICAL TIME IN MAZDAISM AND ISMAILISM (p. 50) from which, Olson: Paradise is a person. Come into this world. ... Come into as act and agent of making. or wander open and aimless in the politics of nothing. --Scope "...This wonderful English writer said something about what he learned from when he went to Africa to study those so-called primitive societies. He said that in the West we think of freedom as a manifestation of our ability to compete. But it never entered into our minds what a certain primitive people knew. That the greatest human achievement was cooperation. And it's true. I mean, I'm a very competitive person. I was a very competitive person, cause that's the way I was brought up. But then, gradually, I had to decide that I was doing it because I really loved doing it, and it had only to do with the fact that it was the one thing in my life that I could be assured of, that would gratify my senses. And you move to the next stage when you recognize the reason the senses were gratified was because certain great spirits before you allowed you to see the potential of developing your senses to that level where you could obtain that sense of gratification. Then the next level is you begin to see that that's a responsibility you didn't even know you were going to be confronted with. That's when the fun begins. Or the tragedy. Because, after all, they also know the wealth of what it is you have,and they offer you things to make you be more in-tuned with their abilities to sell it. Ha-ha!" --CT Publisher Rights Long Carrier Complete skin demarcates Drew. Platinum-iridium complexes remain dead. Bright sun, long radiated; Time scintillating skin down. Professor, Patienten, Tod registrieren der besonderen wurde jeglicher Leben. CABINET: some special skin delicate frail phycocyan longvein'd 'r vein being due light life wakeful remembrance shred Suk doc freely partial books. Reason Regained, Lord Baum Pioneers' Song Radical release by Gutenberg regarding listserv pacs-l. Computer Systems uk deana from phantom.com running dedicated be rue. Regards launches rags complaint Sanders. Ok databases wrap project. Some read send but superdistribution beginning list-mail. Something suspicious, uk. England line called SAMPLER. Sampler skin demarcates Drew. Platinum-iridium complexes remain dead. Suk doc freely partial books. - pre,ze - "white and empty drut" [DIU 12] but what is "drut"? and how does one imbibe it? (we *are* talking about drugs i hope...) --kimberly filbee PROBABLY MORE important than the adoption of this or that curricular development in the Modern University is the installation of a Food Court on Campus, where students can have convenient access to a wide sampling of their favorite fast foods. For the freshman, separated for the first time from his or her family, and placed in the new and challenging College Environment, easy access to a Taco Bell, a Pizza Hut, a McDonald's, or a Kentucky Fried Chicken provides needed stability and continuity in the transition to adulthood. In his or her search for identity, the new college student will be presented with a wide variety of choices, both educational and edible; the campus Food Court can help relieve the pressures that go along with his or her new personal responsibility by making the choices fun...and tasty! Large, easy-to-read menus, cheerful lighting and color schemes, courteous cashiers, wholesome food, and familiar brand names all provide the new student with a sense of well-being and belonging. Instead of the huge, impersonal cafeterias of yesteryear, with their generic, steam-table fare, today's Food Courts serve individually-wrapped, student-designed meals in a well-known and intimate setting. The homesickness that besets so many first-semester freshman is a thing of the past with a modern Food Court on Campus. --pop-apocalyptic productions kimberly- as i can come up with it (on the spot, as it were), drut 's not drugs (at least not in the sense of pcp etc... perhaps more like TV), but an anagrammatic "turd", the inhilation inward (to a so-called 'empty interior') of shit... --Scope A philosophic condition--that is, that general collection of ideas shared by a people, quite apart from any organized structure of propositions or beliefs--is almost invisible. Particular thinkers may propose to clarify the philosophic condition or modify it (usually unsuccessfully), but the condition itself is rather like a geologic condition and nearly as slow to change. It is implicit in ordinary organization, eductional practice, religious ritual, and political institutions. Humankind has known only three philosophic conditions: polytheism, monotheism, and modern subjectivism. Now the subject is nearly as dead as the polytheistic gods. To be sure, billions of people are conditioned by these philosophies: the nostalgic sway of monotheism, for example, is extremely powerful in both Christian and Muslim cultures, and modern subjectivism is still prevalent amongst the world's administrative classes. Philosophically, however, the subject is finished. It no longer underwrites a poetry, the making of a unity for itself. The subject, far from being the considered, as it were the ultimate philosophic trap, can now almost be seen as a triviality, the substance of a prior philosophic condition that confused the general with the abstract: thinking deals in generalities--categories and thus even the category of the knowing mind is treated as a category. The philosophic subject is not a personal consciousness but all consciousness. The great malaise (fin-de-millennium) is that we do not have a way of being in the world. We might now think of the self as an archetype, in a series of enfolded archetypes. We might propose to resurrect the Self as a mode of integration, as Jung once resurrected the gods. None of the modes of nostalgia, however, will suffice. The generalities inherently distractive. There is however an abstract essence that is not a logical or philosphical essence: it is a person, group of people, object (mandala), or sound, landscape, brought to attention, so both the thing and the attention resolve in awareness. It is not a thing, not material, but an event that endures. It is time-filled, rather than time-emptied (i.e. time that does not endure, that counts. It is the measure). --Thus, Albert or Hubert Readlist, Last Days of the White Race Radio Free North America, 25 September '94 Beverly Dahlen / "Five" / *A Reading 1-7* Margaret Danner / "The Convert" / *Impressions of African Art Forms* Judith Johnson / "Miranda's Birthspell" / *The Ice Lizard* Rosario Murillo / "La Vida No Tiene Calma" ("Life Without Peace") / *Angel In The Deluge* Pam Rehm / "Matters Of Relation" / *The Garment In Which No One Had Slept* Nazik al-Mala'ika, "New Year" / *Modern Poetry of the Arab World"* it was hell and I walked down the steps bearing. --BD But I find myself still framing word sketches of how much these blazing forms ascending the centuries in their muted sheens, matter to me. --MD from blood in blood and still not free of our blood. --JJ me hacen falta el sol, los elefantes la exacta ubicacion de los lunares (I'm missing the sun, the elephants the exact location of the moles on your body) --RM When together has a particular figure it leaves bonds and this consists of properties a miracle did not depend upon. --PR New Year, don't come to our homes, We are echoes from a ghost world. People have dropped us --N.a-M radiostation wrpi 91.5 fm troy, ny autumnal equinox 94 0859-1201 A. Shepp/Jasper Van't Hoff--"Down Home In New York"/The Fifth of May John Coltrane--"Equinox"/The Best of John Coltrane Shepp/Van't Hoff--"Naima"/The Fifth of May Cecil Taylor--"Olim"/For Olim Pauline Oliveros/Fanni Green--"Time Piece"/Tellus 27 - Takehisa Kosugi--"Paraphrase"/Tellus 27 - Jerome Rothenberg--"The 14th Horse Song of Frank Mitchell"/cassette Anthony Braxton--""No. 69(0)+135|No. 69B|No. 107B(+96)|No. 101| No. 23N(+112+108A+33)/Willisau (Quartet) 1991 Bongwater--"Mystery Hole|I Need A New Tape|Great Radio"/ The Power of Pussy Ghorwane--"Majurugenta"/Marjurugenta Glenn Spearman Double Trio--"Double Image"/Mystery Project - Federico Garcia Lorca/La Argentinita--"Zorongo Gitano|Anda Jaleo| Sevillanas del siglo XVIII"/Collecion de Cantares Populares Espanoles - Brenda Hutchinson--"Long Tube Trio"/Tellus 27 on James Wyeth painting "10W30" Beaks break out of corrugated angles smeared with stains of crude reproductions they don't mind the smell-- keep on hatching And flows out to the Sound--the Strait chewing gum laps it up, but not before It reaches the wings and talons swim to the shore, dying. These quantities do not mix hen house screams and sleeping dreams A feather winds down around mortised Column--history in cardboard Sears crate. Red, white and crude streaks and brown drips Rainbow puddles in bundles of hay Cars keep moving clogging up the drains of our senses Chicken squawks from sounds on farm "I'll get to this later..." --ER Descriptions of an Imaginary Univercity c / o the logic of snowflakes cf2785@albnyvms.bitnet