Martin Guttman, Eli Gottlieb / Version 0

SCULPTURE FOR SPOKEN VOICE / Eli Gottlieb

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The air around my mouth tastes somewhat green tonight. The speaking of words is somewhat my theme tonight. Words tremble in harness between this world and the next. All of poetry is in the “b” of subtle. Rhyme is the chime of the future coming. Words work for us even as they make us work. To be spoken by English is a remarkable thing. English has a hitting sensation as it arrives in your face. The words do not hold a distance off as they do in all other languages more rooted in a praxis of place.

PAUSE

Italian is round and spherical. French is tautly analytical. German is depth-driven and ponderous. English, well English is mainly fast. Or is that das, my ass. Crucial jalousies, and then the hairpin turn bent an endgame over its knee and broke it into a million pieces—Jesus, that gives me the jitters, and some gas!

Always, to begin, there is the childhood. Mine was a tranquil affair. I was monstrously colonized by everyone and forced to pretend it was all a lovely game. Pastel pictures were brought before me. Gilded realms of access to wondrous things. A lot of hair was made to fall in my eyes. And then there’s this: from the beginning, hissing machine application of parental will crush me along determined contours. This was later called History, by the way, a mist actually, a maddening glaze.

My earliest memories were of the spiritual soul. The light. The air. The space around my body. …

TWO TYPES OF REVOLT AGAINST REASON / Glegg & Guttman
The metaphysical background of widely held beliefs

DVD

DOUBLE LECTURE

1.7      We are capable of perceiving the spiritual aspects of our condition. and the condition of others.
1.71    We can perceive certain things which western medicine is incapable of registering.
1.72    Our abilities to perceive ourselves and others go beyond what the science of medicine permits us.
1.8      Western medicine is guided by reason and reason alone.
1.81    The limitations of western medicine testify to the limitations of reason.
1.82    There are aspects of the world which reason cannot penetrate.
1.9      Reason pretends to understand everything.
1.91    Reason does not see its limitations; it cannot even see that it has limitations.
1.911  When reason encounters a phenomena it cannot understand it pretends that it does not exists.
1.912  What reason cannot control it denies its existence.
1.92    We can perceive what lies beyond the physical and, thus, be in touch with what lies outside the sphere of reason.
1.921  We are not fooled by reason.
1.93    Reason must be resisted.
2.0      Second monologue on reason: The situationist vs. the rationalist
2.1      I lived in the city all my life; I am a city-person. The city is my home. I often leave the city but I always return. Only city-life makes sense to me; other types of living are incomprehensible to me.