Stephen,
Enjoyed reading your text and viewing your haptic simultaneously on the same computer
screen. Since I've written in the bathtub for years (on occasion dropping paper but never
experiencing a total loss), I wondered whether your prose was inscribed during a period
when you were immersed? And whether the haptic drawing was rendered during the
same interval?
Barry
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:56:34 -0600, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>from the 'local' all the way out & back. neat, Stephen, very.
>
>Doug
>
>Quoting "Stephen Vincent" <[log in to unmask]>:
>
>> from The First 100 Days of President Obama.
>>
>> Day 60, 9-10AM, March 21, 2009, Mercey Hot Springs near Firebaugh
>> [Fresno County, California]
>>
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>>
>> Bird songs dot, rise, fall, loop and proliferate. First day of Spring.
>> The mating already well begun. Last night, three o?clock or so, out on
>> the cabin porch. No moon. An extraordinary bed of stars & planets
>> specked around the hemispheric black bed. On the edge (I am guessing)
>> of the northeast horizon, a jarringly layered red and white striped
>> planet is an aberration among its slowly flashing white partners.
>> An alert, an alarm, the flare of cosmic argument? Some ultimate message
>> bearing on the local?
>> A bird call, one echoed then layered, one
>> upon another. The pen moves gently and quick to accommodate the
>> chatter. The option of romance. The romance of options. The profile of
>> one bird atop the crown of a local tree. Calls echoed in the nocturnal
>> rhythms of the stars. One imagines, one wonders.
>> Mercey Hot Springs was named after the Frenchman who discovered the
>> no doubt Indian medicine site. Merci (thank you) - was his real
>> name. Much cleansed by the sulphurous waters, I thank him, too.
>>
>> Stephen Vincent
>> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
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