lochjet
05-18-2008, 02:40 PM
It was the middle of the week in that spring morning when I walked into the classroom, without any expectations. Everything seemed normal. We were just spirits, coming from our respective realms to congregate in Dr. McCaffrey’s room. The room was slightly filled with cirrus clouds: slightly frosty, foggy and miraculous, giving me the feeling that this was a living dream or that I was already dead.
“[…] Derrida’s attribution of the discovery of the signifier’s differential nature to Saussure draws attention to Bacon’s bilateral cipher, arguing that ‘we find in Bacon’s cipher an extremely precise development of the binary character of the signifier […]’”
McCaffrey read from his book on the theme of Alphabetic Dimensions.
It’s not that I wasn’t interested, however, my mind was set on thinking about his previous teachings, especially that of the kabbalah, Gematria, Hieroglyphics, and my favorite, the subject of Zaum.
Nonetheless, that wasn’t enough! At the same time, I was also thinking of Kierkegaard and of The Concept of Anxiety, and of the Gift of Death, by Jacques Derrida, Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy and especially of The Dominion of the Dead, by Harrison, in which the story of the Polish novelist, Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski or Joseph Conrad was being told in an unexpected way, which stroked me gravely, since I had never thought of myself as having an alliance to the earth as a place of “remembrance” and of tradition from which all humans are--well, what we are: humando, or burying, because being human is to bury, according to Harrison.
Does that make any sense to you? Well, at the moment, it did to me, although my brain was a blender in which all kinds of thoughts were being processed into one gulp of thick, hot lava.
So, I thought to myself, “What can I do that is fun while the thought of the signifier settled in my brain? Oh, I know…” and then Mario came to mind.
Why Mario? Well, it’s silly and fun at the same time. I always had many good times playing a Mario game, particularly Super Mario Bros. 3. “Oh, man, was that a great game or what?” I thought.
So, in an instant, I came up with something that looks like this:
MARIO, JUMP!
Press Start
Stasis – Still – Chill – Pause – Halt – Stop!
Anxiety – Presuppose – Nothing
Press Right Control Pad
One – Step, 1
One – Step; 2
One – Step: 3
One – Step. 4
Leave – Drag? – Accelerate – Forward! – Gain – ¿Speed – Vector – Right Å®
Exhilaration – Joy – Anticipation – ExpectationÉ… – Hope
Press A
Action – Reaction – Mass – Weight – Loss – Gravity – Verse – [Re]
Pause
Apex – Climax – Cima – Mesa – Top – Max – rms – Syntactic – Blank – Space
[…] Known – [Un] – Zaum - Hieroglyphica – Kabbalistic - Gematria – Qualitative - Leap
Land
-On-
-Or-
Void
Press […] Start
“[…] Derrida’s attribution of the discovery of the signifier’s differential nature to Saussure draws attention to Bacon’s bilateral cipher, arguing that ‘we find in Bacon’s cipher an extremely precise development of the binary character of the signifier […]’”
McCaffrey read from his book on the theme of Alphabetic Dimensions.
It’s not that I wasn’t interested, however, my mind was set on thinking about his previous teachings, especially that of the kabbalah, Gematria, Hieroglyphics, and my favorite, the subject of Zaum.
Nonetheless, that wasn’t enough! At the same time, I was also thinking of Kierkegaard and of The Concept of Anxiety, and of the Gift of Death, by Jacques Derrida, Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy and especially of The Dominion of the Dead, by Harrison, in which the story of the Polish novelist, Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski or Joseph Conrad was being told in an unexpected way, which stroked me gravely, since I had never thought of myself as having an alliance to the earth as a place of “remembrance” and of tradition from which all humans are--well, what we are: humando, or burying, because being human is to bury, according to Harrison.
Does that make any sense to you? Well, at the moment, it did to me, although my brain was a blender in which all kinds of thoughts were being processed into one gulp of thick, hot lava.
So, I thought to myself, “What can I do that is fun while the thought of the signifier settled in my brain? Oh, I know…” and then Mario came to mind.
Why Mario? Well, it’s silly and fun at the same time. I always had many good times playing a Mario game, particularly Super Mario Bros. 3. “Oh, man, was that a great game or what?” I thought.
So, in an instant, I came up with something that looks like this:
MARIO, JUMP!
Press Start
Stasis – Still – Chill – Pause – Halt – Stop!
Anxiety – Presuppose – Nothing
Press Right Control Pad
One – Step, 1
One – Step; 2
One – Step: 3
One – Step. 4
Leave – Drag? – Accelerate – Forward! – Gain – ¿Speed – Vector – Right Å®
Exhilaration – Joy – Anticipation – ExpectationÉ… – Hope
Press A
Action – Reaction – Mass – Weight – Loss – Gravity – Verse – [Re]
Pause
Apex – Climax – Cima – Mesa – Top – Max – rms – Syntactic – Blank – Space
[…] Known – [Un] – Zaum - Hieroglyphica – Kabbalistic - Gematria – Qualitative - Leap
Land
-On-
-Or-
Void
Press […] Start