because paradigms of artisanship imply a controlled finishing but removed always from power we have to learn to make our lives in the surfaces, the patinas, of happenstance. my face has the patina of happenstance. (am i spelling patina right? baby printed out the 1860 original words to Dixie. i am, of course, whacko, but still i see in the dialectical experimentation of minstrelry what i take to be the subversive possibilities of 'american'. revolution is about language ('semiotics' just a synonym of language). blackface a kind of patina. a voodoo patina for playing with words in ways you would not otherwise. play the fool. in the 18th century performances of 'king lear' i understand they wrote the fool out. or un-wrote the fool. am i spelling patina right?)
i remember we were walking on the side of coventry cathedral away from the town, over by the college, and momma asked me what i had in my mind being in life. 'i think i want to be a poet,' i said. 'poets don't make any money,' momma said, 'you have to have something to FALL BACK on.' it was the wrong answer. i ain't gonna FALL BACK. i'm gonna die FALLING FORWARD.
my whole life has been about motherfuckers trying to write the fool out of me. ain't gonna happen. dis fool won't be un-wrote.
my whole life mostly about getting UN-ROTE.
i remember going to the bulmershe college of education and seeing mr. adrian henri (sp?). i asked him what i should do about becoming a poet. 'i wouldn't be a poet,' he said. 'i'd be a blues singer.' 'o.k.' i said.
because in peoples' minds 'novels' are fixed things - which is silly, because novels are very changeable. baby and i have been reading frankenstein but it's like i had never read it before - so we theorise the 'hypernovel'. fiction is a human inquiry just like 'science'. when you shift the paradigm a whole bunch of new phenomena shows up. that bell scene ain't in 'the vikings'. i think it must be in a movie 'the long ships'. i'll be checking. in one of the death scenes in the 1929 movie 'alibi' you should note the evocation of heaven calling is strains of hawaiian guitar. that's absolutely a prediction of the empire of dr. bienke.
i swear we'll have 'coloring of a lion' up soon. koo my paper doll of dying falling forward.
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