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On Jul 10, 2005, at 7:25 AM, Tim Gaze wrote:

okay, i'll convert them & resend them later.
 
meanwhile, some words I've been thinking about for a year or two, but finally wrote down a couple of hours ago...
 
reading is a hypnotic state.
you voluntarily place yourself partly in someone else's power
the moment you begin to read


On Jul 10, 2005, at 8:57 PM, Tim Gaze wrote:

I hope you'll be posting your words as well, somewhere within cooee of mine. (that means "within earshot of mine".)
 
----- Original Message -----
From: jim leftwich
To: Tim Gaze
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 4:57 AM
Subject: Re: recent thoughts

reading is a hypnotic state.
you voluntarily place yourself partly in someone else's power
the moment you begin to read.

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yes.

as a writer the only thing i can honestly advocate is writing.
not my writing, your writing.
the reader who gets it gets rid of it.

reading is not writing.
reading is subservience, acquiescence, nostalgia,
at best the construction of consensus fictions.
the struggle is to transform reading into writing,
against author as authority,
anarchic and archaic against civilized sclerosis.

writing is a guerilla tactic against reading.