On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 13:15 -0800, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> What is the relationship between 'being punctual' and 'punctuation'?
Talking about verse poetry in english here, punctuation is both punctual
and eternal time, following Deleuze, if you like, the order of time and
eternal time (eg LOS). A metaphysics of order being and eternal being
which, of course, is the difficulty of D's metaphysics.
Unlike (most?) other forms of english, line verse has the richest and
widest range of punctuation. A lyric poem can be written completely
without traditional punctuation like commas and colons etc and without
using caps and still have a very dynamic range, which is what those
white spaces are doing. How to shout out loud and speak very quietly, to
create voices. Voices carry affects and more then carriers are affects
in itself. How to use punctuation, available in great richness and
variety, how to have economy of affects which do not overload and topple
over, unless toppling over is needed and how to topple over and be
affects which still stand? (& so forth...)
Musicians tell me that John Coltrane on sax is human voice, pure voice
(perhaps without the burden of signification) that both carries and is
affects, new affects never heard before. Punctuation in verse which is
real poetry are also voices as affects never heard before and the
sensation of hearing marks on a printed page which are somehow outside
signification and also as much as signifying also carried in voices. (I
should cut off here, a bit tired today; I should say goodbye.)
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