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NOTES ON THE PERPETUAL DEFERRAL OF BEING

This scrawl here that preserves in its (literary) texture what it loses being
prettified in the neo-modernist conventions of universal design and in the
san-serif font so distant from what I scratched illegibly on paper with a pen. I
have stopped writing—writing is too full of temptation: to nostalgia (for the
inkpot and quil), to self-love (I had tender feelings for the brutal gestures of
my own hand), to self-loathing (the pen's ink is too much like blood and draws
sickly, confessional prose).

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THINKING

I was struck by this:

... in thinking we are able to develop new political forms, big or small. Put
differently, the future used to depend on action; now it depends on thinking.

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 * thinking

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WATCHSPRING

A twist on the key tensions the main spring until there is no play left. But the
steady tension of that wind turns the clock's arms in measured jumps. In the
escapement, the wheel is caught and released discreetly, and seconds don't run
like fluid around the face. it is two, and then it is three – the in-between is
a blur. Time was digital even when it was analog, as those teeth and cogs
ensure.

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 * computation
 * digital
 * time

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LISTEN

listen
I hear my father breathing

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 * breathing
 * death
 * emptiness
 * father
 * observation
 * poetry

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EGG

I had a dream which featured two eggs. One egg when I cracked it, was more
mature than I had anticipated. Out of it came a grey-feathered chick, and I
registered surprise as it emerged tentatively, awkwardly from its confinement,
very much alive.

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 * death
 * dreams
 * grotesque

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DOLL

It was already a few days back that I dreamed this: a doll made of flesh. It
stood statuesquely in a clearing, out of doors. It was too big, not just for
interiors to accommodate, but to really be a doll — a thing that would serve a
child for play. I saw it like one does a tree that stands above the others, or
an outcropping of rocks emerging lifeless from a verdant canopy.

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 * dreams
 * grotesque

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UNCERTAIN

A humble suspension of certainty seems necessary ... almost always: in order
that a conversation can take place; in order to think. Otherwise there is no
motion, no mobility in argument, in reasoning, in dialectics. There has to be a
space: an empty position as a kind of parameterization so that one can entertain
possibilities serially. Not just one hand and then the other, but this that and
the other: or, or, or. Something might fit. And judgment might be made. But the
entrance of judgment depends on a parade of alternatives, not on an a priori
certainty. Judgment is a choice, an imposition, a selection.

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 * conversation
 * rhetoric
 * theory
 * uncertainty

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SUPERNUMERARY

My first encounter with the word was in the dentist's office. My brother had an
extra tooth. Its surgical removal was painful and grotesque, as was the small
bit of bone extracted from his jaw. It made sense to me in some way, that this
disgusting bit of flesh was a part of my brother, whom, for “psychological”
reasons, I suppose, I had already associated with deformity.

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 * excess
 * grotesque
 * sublime

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language loss love lust masculinity memory metaphor mind narratology observation
persuasion place pleasure poetry politics prison property proposal prose public
questions quotation resignation rhetoric sex sickness sophistry space structure
sublime terrorism theory thinking time trouble uncertainty unrealized value
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