Patrick,
Doug introduced the term [ur-text] into the discussion. I'm just mirroring his usage in my response. Initially, I used the term [source]. Thanks for sending me back to my source on this occasion, because I registered for the first time that that source was a recorded interview rather than an email interview. Hard to say if both parties revised their contribution, because the prose is rather polished, and Juan Munoz died unexpectedly at age 48 less than a year after the interview was conducted. I heard him talk in English to a museum audience, and though his command of the language was quite good, I remain uncertain whether the interviewer (Paul Schimmel) did the final edit of the answers of Juan Munoz.
You could be intrigued by the architectural art of Juan Munoz, and I'd recommend doing a Google Image search under his name. Perhaps clay tablets were the building blocks of his sculpture?
Barry
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 09:48:01 +0100, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Barry 'Ur -text' gosh is that clay tablets???
>P min techyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
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>Subject: Re: Snap That Architectural & Theatrical Sculptor
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>Thanks Doug. I remain more fascinated by the three line diastic, in part
>because I never previously conceived of limiting myself to one word / letter
>in the title. Perhaps I'll work that way the next time I'm seated in a
>darkened auditorium.
>
>I'd guess that my ur-text consisted of perhaps 1250 words.
>
>Barry
>
>
>On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 11:05:55 -0600, Douglas Barbour
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>>Both fascinating in their ways, Barry.
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>>How large an ur-text do you use here?
>>
>>Doug
>>On 2011-08-10, at 9:23 AM, Barry Alpert wrote:
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>>> SPEAK JUAN MUNOZ
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>>It is natural to speak of your own weaknesses so winsomely they will seem
>strengths, as if everyone else is inadequate if they do not have your
>inadequacies.
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