All fascinating, Stephen. I am envious, of both your talent with the drawing pen & the events you have attended to hear/see. And your mother's wandering mind, set on a language still active in itself. 'peculiar,' indeed. Doug On 25-Nov-08, at 11:28 AM, Stephen Vincent wrote: > http://stephenvincent.net/blog/ > > Some new haptics, photographs and texts: > > 1. Haptics: Joseph Noble and Colleen Lookingbill at Books & > Bookshelves > 2. My Mother Leans Towards Death (Haptic and Text) > My brother says that at night (while talking herself into sleep) > she switches back and forth between > numbers and letters. This last week he was brought up short when, > two-thirds the way through the alphabet. he heard her say: > > … p, q, r...'peculiar'… in an astonishingly quick leap from the > associative sounds of the letters into a corresponding word of > similar sound.... > > 3. Huge Haptic w/ A.Ayler, J. Coltrane & Eric Friedlander plus > "Obama Window" > 4. The Ultimate Mother Ghost - Isleton, California > 5. Election Eve Street Vision or Paul Hoover and Maxine Chernoff > translate Holderin. > 6. Haptic: Roberta Vargas, poet, 1968 Strike Commemoration, San > Francisco State University, October 28, 2008 > > Enjoy. and, as always, appreciate your comments. > > Stephen V > http://stephenvincent.net/blog/ > Douglas Barbour [log in to unmask] http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ Latest books: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 Wednesdays' http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention. Guy Davenport