Dying/broken/forgiven.... now I begin

Born: 17-06-56....gemini.... monkey
re-born: 3-09-80
born again\found: 14-04-08
other notable dates: 10-03-68; 03-09-87; 23-03-96;
1-05-98; 31-01-02; 5-04-04

Interests: movement, stressed/transgressive embodiment, lived experience (body\space\time\relation)
expression ( word, dance, text, image, story, music, poetics)
learning, yielding......

Hopes for the blog:
offer up the wild intersectedness of lived experience and engage others in creative, expressive, perhaps irreverant, hopefully playful, and respectful encounters....
enact kindness
create moments of pause for disclosure, discovery, stillness

Sunday, June 14, 2009

semiotics



a boat
has to float
on its own bottom
if not
it doesn't
if it doesn't
it isn't




11 comments:

  1. with thanks ( I think!! ) to Julia Kristeva and Umberto Eco for the ingredients for this little tribute to sign systems...

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  2. I really should check in here more often. I like what I read.

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  3. Jimmy-- well, you just made my day!thanks...
    I always enjoy visiting your site and happily welcome your visits to mine... anytime!

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  4. A capsized boat is still a boat afloat but it's bottom is on the top and the top now the bottom. It may not sail as nice but a boat it remains. All that aside I love the word play.

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  5. if it doesnt it doesnt
    if it isnt it isnt
    but it was not does it

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  6. WM and Maria-- your comments are quite the duet!! nice work, you two...
    as for the little verse... it kind of took on a patter of its own, so I went with it. I liked how you both took that up as well. thanks.

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  7. And if it isn't, it never was!Ha!I love her, you.Sometimes I think the fewer words can make one think far more.

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  8. Love your stuff.....You have3 more that a casual way with words . Very nice
    Hugs
    Linda

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  9. Few words but mean a lots. Precise to its meaning and I really love it. You play with the words so well.

    Thanks and look forward to hearing from you again.

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  10. SarahA and Linda-- ha... I love it when I see a
    "ha!"... more more!...I, too, agree with the principle of parsimony.
    glad you enjoy this stuff...

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  11. James-- thanks for this thoughtful comment... I am glad you visited and that you liked the wordplay.
    Come on back anytime...

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