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




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11 comments:

  1. HarlequinJune 14, 2009 at 9:57 PM

    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. BarlinnieJune 15, 2009 at 6:06 AM

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

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  3. HarlequinJune 15, 2009 at 10:37 PM

    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. the walking manJune 16, 2009 at 3:59 AM

    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. Mariana SofferJune 16, 2009 at 11:11 PM

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

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  6. HarlequinJune 17, 2009 at 12:53 AM

    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. AnonymousJune 17, 2009 at 4:11 AM

    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. Linda S. SochaJune 18, 2009 at 12:28 AM

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

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  9. UnknownJune 18, 2009 at 12:41 AM

    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. HarlequinJune 18, 2009 at 12:43 AM

    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. HarlequinJune 18, 2009 at 9:54 PM

    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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