[-empyre-] the subject of this month

[Deena Larsen]

Thanks Alan for Emily's poem.Tell all the Truth but tell it slant/Success in Circuit lies.   I thnk that links, virtual reality, video, sound, all can conspire to tell tyhe truth slant--that is, go off in other dimensions of meaning and "dazzle gradually"--instead of a blunt offering. 

Alan also wrote: 
 The solution, if there is one, is to keep on writing and talking on the 
level of writing and talking; this constantly changes and is itself 
porous -
Deena Larsen
http://www.deenalarsen.net/



Johnannes,
Thank you for your insights and description of projects.   As you say "
--Alan, we could also be wrong, no?  perhaps it is not inexpressible at all."
 
There are many ways to express what can not be said directly or simply--and this encompasess far more than this month's 
topic of pain and suffering--in includes all of human (and inhuman?) experiences. 
 
 
I like the visual directory of Kafka's Wound Project (http://thespace.lrb.co.uk/#i-am-guilty-of-an-association-of-ideas)
--and I think you have hit on a key point in this discussion with "I am guilty of an association of ideas; or rather: I am guilty – that’s a given, and in casting about for the 
source of my guilt I find I cannot prevent myself from linking one idea 
with another purely on the basis of their contiguity, in time, in place, in my own mind. It’s not only ideas I connect like this, I do it with 
images, sensory impressions and the most epiphenomenal of mental 
glitches."
 
Alan wrote:
The solution, if there is one, is to keep on writing and talking on the level of writing and talking; this constantly changes and is itself porous -
 
 
Perhaps, Alan, it goes beyond this optimism--the key is to keep associating, to keep linking with one idea and another, one movement and another-in a dance, a symphony, a linked piece of writing, a virtual avatar, etc.
 
I'd like to ask the list at large--
What association of ideas /experiences sticks in your mind?
 
What pieces of writing (either online or off?) are your cathartic pieces--the ones you associate with the most?
 
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