[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Sender: nettime-l-request@bbs.thing.net

[Christina Hung <xtinaxtina@earthlink.net>]

While I am looking forward to analysis of tuesday's events by the nettime
community, I feel it's really too early for this kind of cynicism.  Is this
truly your intention or am I reading along a line of > traditional human
meandering?

on 9/12/01 11:21 PM, Alan Sondheim at sondheim@panix.com wrote:

> -
> 
> 
> o what we are doing is writing stories. this is what i was doing when it
> happened: this is what i felt: this is what i heard
> oo this is what i was doing when it happened: this is what i felt: this is
> what i heard
> ooo the stories begin, develop, end: the stories follow the traditional
> logic of time extrapolated from human behavior: from the human construct
> of the world until: one's death
> oooo we tell the stories because we are in the midst of them and part of a
> vast human communality and we tell these stories because they come to an
> end and we understand how to make ends
> ooooo here's where i am now after it happened: this is what i went
> through: i am a witness to the world: i was there when it happened
> oooooo what we are doing is speaking: we are writing truths and truths
> oooooo what we are doing is making: we are writing fiction and comfort: we
> are writing ourselves into existence: into existence after it happened
> ooooo we rewind: here is what i made happen: this is what the world went
> through: the world is a witness through my fiction: the world is here
> oooo we make up stories to place us within a human communality that we
> comment upon from within, without, from the periphery: we write these
> stories because they have beginnings and they are fine beginnings and we
> understand how to write: how to write the world
> ooo the stories are forced into beginnings and endings: they follow the
> traditional human meandering: the human continuity across what later might
> be considered fictional events: what happened in the story:
> oo this is the event i am making up: this is the plot of my story: this is
> a good, a wonderful plot: this is quite original
> oo.o you write as if you were there, as if you were part of it: as if you
> were part of something
> o what we are doing is telling truths: these events almost seem real: you
> write so well, almost as if these things happened: you turn fiction into
> truth
> 
> 
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