"A/A" (an alan sondheim and august highland collaboration)

[SONDHEIM AND HIGHLAND]

"A/A"

(an alan sondheim and august highland
collaboration)



A.S.


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your fucking fucking go go don't to fucking hell want george and bush
fight why own you dirty fight why and george own to dirty hell battles
immediately now an immediately end an filthy filthy bring end battles
monster don't leave you us it alone already isn't enough it already
already monster enough your hijacked leave whole damn damn nation nation
begin slaughter hijacked let whole begin | too you're many you're dead not
if not you're protesting not let protesting many giving if in or kill
change all or amerikka my love country or giving change in my all country
amerikka is love a country killer is i am am patriot patriot not


A.H.


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A.S.


you've got money here, philosophy, and suicide. i've got war and nothing
more on my mind. philosophy follows war like a camp follower without the
camp. money is the quantification of war; it's always already abstracted.
suicide isn't even a question; we're all suicides. we've always been
suicides. the interrelations among negatives have only needed the
catalysts of bio-warfare and nuclear capabilities to complete our destin-
ies. we're there now, at the threshold, teleologies beginning their
inevitable collapse. 'no more war' is a call for violence; everything is.
it's the fate of cultures to infold. the only thing left to speak of, the
phenomenology of the residue, the ruin, one corpse to another


A.H.


text given by mouth/shouldering muscular burn hung upside down
abortion by chain/dangling shotgun embedded in the throat
venison nurturing ampule/empty some of the vomit from my retina
I bathe in castration I spray the toilet wall with fear I shit light
the ground wants to fuck me/count and scriptualize the scars
streamers of aortas vagina of life/the pigments must first be swallowed
close to that moment of stillness/yellow gloves on the wheel
pulling me back into what I'm from/fetus suckles composite of cesspool
reciprocal punctures engendering halves/end isolation breathing exceeds
thirst resorption
recovered, balance found/annotating loop vital target


A.S.


are we writing for the occurrence of writing? i believe in the political
economy of both the writer and the reader - the preciousness of each and
every moment in these perilous times. one should write as if always
engaged, not with the interior of the body - there is no time for that -
but with the polis in the broadest sense. it's more necessary than ever to
eschew style, establish and enter the commons (Lessig); war is breathing
hard down each and every one of us. it's just a matter of time before the
loose and wobbling equations exacerbate our tenuous peace; at that point,
all interiors will be open, all exteriors closed and dismembered, hacked
to pieces. why bathe in castration when this torture will be accomplished
by others, against other cultures, with other means, dis/comforts?


A.H.


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A.S.


the lines were not originally done as a response, you write; if so, how do
they fit in a collaboration? not trying to be difficult, but if this is a
response to your call, where is your call in relation to the response of
which i wrote "by others, against other cultures, with other means,
dis/comforts?" - unless every missive as such is a response, or shall we
place our work here from otherwise, or from otherwise here? or does a
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A.H.


i wrote:

each listens to what the other says

but is not expected to reply directly to what was said

the next speaker says what comes up for him after

having heard his companion talking

so the result is not a traditional dialogue



you wrote:

This is a fairly typical way to collaborate


A.S.


But is it a collaboration if you do something not in relation to this at
all and then send it out as a separate piece, which it was in the first
place? Presumably "what comes up for him after" references some relation
to the other; if not, I could and may also place my 'other' (is there ever
an 'other'?) work here? Like a renga or slant-truth one would hope that
what we produce would be, as this response or statement is, a relation
that would not otherwise occur except for the 'other' (is there ever an
'other'?) work here? Like a renga or slant-truth one would hope that what
we produce would be, as this response or statement is, a relation that
would not otherwise occur except for the 'other' (is there ever an


A.H.


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occur at all except up as "what relation to a then (is and place I-else
also a relation I-else here? for I-else not separate 'other' 'other'
would if if otherwise otherwise or a an there hope a slant-truth there
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and the out that renga for relation that piece, would her or self/truth


A.S.


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recipient: <embrus at bellsouth.net> <corocordouez at hotmail.com>: wrote:
listens says expected reply directly was said next speaker comes up him
after having heard his companion talking so result traditional dialogue
This fairly typical way collaborate But collaboration something then send
out separate piece, place? Presumably "what after" references other; not,
could also 'other' (is 'other'?) Like renga slant-truth would hope produce
be, statement is, occur except 'other') I-else neither and, listen
slanting her self/truth


A.H.


dear augie and alan,

this is sadam hussein sending you my greetings.
i am sitting in my palace having tea with my pal bushy
and my dear friend ariel sharon - listen - we are
meeting up with putin for vodka shots at hefner's
place this friday - you are both welcome to join
us - you are our kind of guys.


A.S.


madman will bring the world to the brink of potential nuclear war and
SECRET war memorandum be effectual. We are frightened of this war and of
this country.  We to want make an be anti-war good piece. citizens.
effectual. war are of there's always a war on - knock on the door at
midnight - we're gone after this new writing. I want my writing to end all
war and bad feelings, for war war resistance resistance accomplishing
accomplishing the the corner across . corner of dirt for apparently war
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end of "A/A"

(an august highland and alan sondheim
collaboration)






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