Re: RAT Lurking online

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And finally ye
RATS lurck barck
to me and thee se s
that drew US
'eirs of Enkidu
to the fireside of 
Shamash
and his cursed whore.

cf:  Independent Eyes, tablet VII, column iii, GE,
my translation by Heidel.

I yearn for giant puppets springing to life in the light
of marchers assembled sans song waiting for leaders
to arrive in  white limosines.

Ah, Nomad, Ah, Shadow, Aha
HaHaHaHaminimanyHaHa
8:15AM, I must get back to the
500 word proposal I haven't 
written sitting here 10 hours
by four days.Ick, Ick, Agh, Huius?
I certainly don't know.




In a message dated 01/31/100 9:37:14 PM EST, NOMADMONAD@aol.com writes:

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>  But fire and story were always such loving mates.  Our twin protectors.
>  
>  Also doesn't ritual belong best to firelight in some dark and secret cave? 
 
>  Christians in the Roman catacombs and such.  The invention of The Book was 
>  then and there.  Prior to this there was the scroll.  But these lurkers 
>  needed something they could fold and close quickly when the threat 
>  approached.  An audience on the edge of their seats and ready to escape 
with 
> 
>  their word, their flesh.
>  
>  And the-city-with-a-thousand-stories-to-tell is not a daylight 
circumstance; 
> 
>  it's something that beckons to the traveler from a distance at night with 
> its 
>  flickering lights. 
>  .
>  A computer monitor shows its meaning best in a quiet dark room.  The soft 
> hum 
>  and eerie blue light of our new story.
>  
>  --nick
>  
>  In a message dated 1/31/00 4:13:12 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
>  shadowtackle@att.net writes:
>  
>  > Holy moly, this is true and scary. I'm often troubled by 
>  >  the us/them split theatrical lighting invents; as often I 
>  >  like the split, lurk in it, take (critical) power from 
>  >  it. Daylight theater has had a good run and could maybe 
>  >  come back - we often put heavy capital towards creating 
>  >  the illusion of sun through factory windows, when we 
>  >  could... have sun coming through factory windows and do 
>  >  our work in broken canneries, etc. without insurance ins 
>  >  in productive despair of permanence.
>  >       Or the dark/light difference could be seen to mark 
>  >  difference in roles and not separation of ultimate 
>  >  purposes or uses. One character is named A, one B and one 
>  >  Audience; there is no hiding, there is collective 
>  >  manufacture of the Big Meaning (the Big What Have You) 
>  >  with separate skills. I don't understand the e medium 
>  >  well enough to say this union of distinctions is 
>  >  possible here; so much goes towards distinction. There's 
>  >  a glass wall between me and my words, cable between me 
>  >  and you, time betweeen thought and response... Novocaine 
>  >  Theater. But this may be a problem of my unfamiliarity. 
>  >  Could get to be like breathing and coughing - the natural 
>  >  sounds Cage made a part of his scores (audiences 
>  >  immediately culpable of particiapation; that's what I 
>  >  miss here - immediate culpability; so much mediation 
>  >  lends anxiety).
>  
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