(I) was almost shocked (permanently) into silence.
And then a part of me (drunk, late-night -- "so what?") thot (pointedly)
"get real" Andrew G...
(Seriously...)
>In almost all situations of public speech,
>what is most important is the silence of the audience, the dialogue
>that takes place in that silence.
>Nevertheless, I do find myself wondering whether an
>aesthetics of performance in which the audience is supposed to
>admire the performer rather than share an implicit conversation
>might not have some relevance to our context here. I abhor the
>violence most forms of performance, whether aesthetic or political,
>direct towards their audience.
... Isn't there an important and interesting contradiction here? As if the
(proposed) imposition of silence opened for (true) poetry is not (also) an
'abuse' (of ______)? As if the violence of (proper, ?authorized)
publication of what is read (and ?solopsistically spoken with) in silence
is unrelated to the violence of (time-based/embodied) performance.
Due form.
What is *this* form?
Where are you?
What are you wearing? (- David B.)
These are the (only) posibilities open to us.
love and love,
all best,
John Wells
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