Writing the Line

Steno pads sometimes get buried in the book shelf which results in an asynchronous dialogue between entries distanced in time. For example, this entry from 2001 is revisited in 2002.

13/03/01

Rumi has a line about being the moisture in an oyster that helps form a pearl. Interesting how so much of the creation of a pearl is credited to the speck of irritant that launches the process.

And the very page of the steno pad gives us a string — a red line down the page.

hippo camp	set
round	rumination
moisture string in the oyster of speech	speckless beading
the string break broke	sea bulls horsed in to play
	not a list chambers
rumination	round
	29/03/02

Very happy with the play on words: nautilus, not a list. And the spiral image it conveys out of two columns.

And so for day 1981
16.05.2012

Nip Nip Na Poo

I have been intrigued with matrices since high school algebra. The layout of this little bit was influenced by the square form of the sticky note.

nippy	nip	nip
nap	nap
na	poo

Baby talk: sheer love of sound. Calming mantra.

And so for day 1980
15.05.2012

Matricial Musings

New meaning to stack overflow…

Spell

the never filled () runs over

::: the stack that is a scattering ::: responding to form to begin a journey into speech with the likes of Michelle Cliff prefacing The Land of Look Behind recalling Ted Chamberlain in the experience and knowledge of ceremonies of belief that are the recounting of accounts :::

an abacus of world strung with beads of word and spanned by the abscissa of dreams :::

riddle: charm filter

charm: riddle feeder
•
~~

The concluding chiasmus relies on the crossing of technical terms and common understandings in a nicely deployed matrix.

And so for day 1381
24.09.2010