No, it's not morbid, Tom. I haven't been able to find out any more about the
'poor sod', even his name, but somehow I imagine as he plunged headfirst to
the ground he wasn't thinking on the 'death of the author'.
All the Best
Dave
David Bircumshaw
Leicester, England
Home Page
A Chide's Alphabet
Painting Without Numbers
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/index.htm
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Bell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 10:12 AM
Subject: Re: "This 'performative' poem"
I certainy wasn't questioning your thinking processesm David. I just
happened to be reading about this book and the idea that they are getting to
the point where they may soon be able to trace those neural pathways of
sadness?
I have to admit that I am becoming quite interested inyour poor 'sod' - hope
I'm not being overly morbid in this.
tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "david.bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 11:20 PM
Subject: Re: "This 'performative' poem"
> Hi Tom
>
> I'm having one of my insomniac nights again, so forgive me if I sound a
bit
> testy, but what I said was remarkably akin to what I happen to think, I'll
> have a look at that url you posted later though. Hope Solms is happy to
have
> done his book, but my thoughts as far as I know are my thoughts.
>
> It's a matter of pathways, neural and physical, and the sorrow that occurs
> when they lead nowhere. Which is a rather accurate description of this
place
> called England.
>
> Still haven't been able to find out a name for that poor sod who jumped
off
> the fifth floor, everyone knows what he did but it's as if he wasn't
human.
> In a few days time his stuff will be thrown into the skip, but if there's
> anything worth having the cleaners will snaffle it, that's what happens
> here, I've even been offered dead people's effects in the foyer myself.
> Gawd.
>
> All the Best
>
> Dave
>
>
> David Bircumshaw
>
> Leicester, England
>
> Home Page
>
> A Chide's Alphabet
>
> Painting Without Numbers
>
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/index.htm
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Bell" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2002 8:59 AM
> Subject: Re: "This 'performative' poem"
>
>
> David,
>
> Is this akin to what someone like Solms
> http://www.psychoanalysis.org.uk/solms.htm is approaching in his new book,
> _The brain and the inner world_?
>
> tom bell.
>
> >It goes something like projecting neural patterns through forms of
> > language that stay in the mind, are communicable to others, and
> > reproducible, and occupy that white space, or dark, whether in print or
> not.
> >
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