On 19 Feb 97, J Cayley quotes Herbert Blau,'Deep throat:the grail of the
voice' in Rothenberg/Guss eds. The book, spiritual instrument,GranaryNYC 96.
> I want to start by saying that, whatever the aesthetics, there is *no*
> alternative to the text. I think that's so in the final analysis of 'the
> final finding of the ear' (Stevens), the *sounding* of a text down to the
> last fugitive syllable, or phoneme, when words seem to have left the page
> as if there had never been any words, dematerialized in the air."
Dear John, No ALTERNATIVE to the text? Is this a statement against
non-linguistic knowledge, non-linguistic existence, what?
I'm familiar with Blau's theorizing of the audience-performance relation
as irreducibly reifying, or rather that there is an essential distance in
order to maintain the desire-object configuration of the imagination. A
description whose power strucutre, become prescription, bothersme a great
deal.
So what are YOU saying here, person at John Cayley's address calling
yourself John Cayley?
Fiona
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