Lynda Benglis, Untitled, c. late 60’s
Tag: flows
In a 1962 letter to Cid Corman, [Lorine] Niedecker reflects as follows on her writing process:
“For me the sentences lie in wait—all those prepositions and connectives—like an early spring flood.
robert gober
Salman Rushdie
The psychic who said, “‘Love conquers all’ is no laughing matter. You give your students unconditional love.”
I use the word love to designate certain phenomena, the fluent and stuttering connections of invisible relations among people, Tvs, waters, angels, animals, antibodies, radios, deities, plants, and bodhisattvas. Love is the ultimate phenomenon, the spinal cord and spiral dance of magic, physics, spirituality, mathematics, and psychology. Love is the heart of the seemingly dismembered body of reality, for love incorporates all positions.
Love is the common ground. There nothing is a law unto itself. There human flesh is indiscrete, not boundary, barrier, or object. There a listener hears the words threshold , indeterminacy , fluctuation , multiplicity , contingency , and in-betweenness , liminal , fluidity , permeability , and vulnerable as sounds whose movement holds together sky, earth, and water in their particular configuration; joins people in sex, romance, and familial and national ties; enfolds the conscious and unconscious functions of the mind; links human and computer minds in cyberspace; keeps your blood from spilling out of your pores; creates inescapable fields of gravity light-years away; and rotates the earth on its axis.
Love makes the world go round.
—Joanna Freuh, Erotic Faculties
Little Bristling Soul 