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transitions in our moving life
Stumbled upon this great Lyn Hejinian passage in Sight, her collaboration with Leslie Scalapino:
"In a series of 'experiments' 'at a window' I am watching a number of appearances which provide me with a biographical sequence of experiences but may not among themselves appear to have 'real' order. They seem 'arbitrary' to each other; a woman in black being tugged after a blond dog on a long leash toward the corner is not 'with' but 'in addition to' a meter maid in a loose uniform tucking a parking ticket in a vivid green envelope under the windshield wiper of a dusty red car; a heavy boy repeatedly riding his skateboard at the curb in the parking lot and attempting to jump it is not 'related to' the sikh in shirtsleeves lounging with a cigarette in his fingers at the kitchen door of the unpopular Indian restaurant across the street. But they are joined by an almost-invisible swift but rational 'and' — a flowing conjunction, 'transitions in our moving life' — which it is my goal to see"
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Monday, February 16, 2004
10:44 PM
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