V.V. 3--Time, place, and mirror-time
Don Corathers
crawdad at one.net
Thu Nov 2 18:19:55 CST 2000
O'Terrance wrote: [a very nice post summarizing the McClintic Sphere problem]
The ivory business and all that is suggested by the description of Sphere--especially the image of a hinged mouth--are very persuasive. A-and extra credit for the Hendrix quote, too.
Still, I'm having trouble reconciling the ideas of jazz and a soulless inanimacy (Is word? Perhaps not.) But then, I guess trouble reconciling ideas is why we read this stuff, yes-no?
Don
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