online: 28 april 2008 modified: 28 april 2008 26 april 2008 the purpose of the electric book?
...i suppose that the purpose of the electric book (if it has one) is to enable us, its writers and readers, to think and to enact new connections that might not exist or continue apart from our presence... i.e. to enable us to be and to perceive the new culture that we are...?
(it's not a separate thing)
20:32 in a designed landscape...
...people run or walk by occasionally but mostly i am alone as if i owned the whole place: free to look or think or walk in any direction... but i prefer to continue sitting here with no plan but to await and note what happens...
...i look up and see the fine green spike-leaves of a pine tree silhouetted against the pale blue evening sky... the sounds are of geese and of fast moving traffic on the surrounding roads... and i can feel the air getting cooler... the runners are less frequent now and I feel in accord with them though we do not speak... we share the landscape and we know it well... this is perhaps the opposite of any fiction!
...my purpose is to write of all these things of which there is no author... but for the designers of this park and city forest... and of this handheld... and of these walks...
...the loud wailing of the siren of an emergency vehicle comes from south, then west and now north before it fades into silence leaving us to resume listening to the low sounds of continuous traffic that come from all directions...
...Mosquitos are beginning to penetrate my bloodwarmed skin and so i go... not everything is beneficial... nor are we...
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