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The Loop, The God, The Variable

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To:jsmagyar25@aol.com

From:llacook@yahoo.com

hello bee-yatch::

of course, you and I's been away from each other for a while (but, y'know, i still have floating around here ONE tape of when we used to play together, just your guitar Fender Acoustic & my synth, no percussion, I SHOULD BURN IT TO CD TO PRESERVE IT:::::but today I want to talk to you, and it's nine o'clock in
the morning (it's very unlikely that you're up yet, four-hundred miles away), and i've been thinking about the computer, and art, and what it is I do now instead of being human:::((((you know what an exaggeration that is::::it's impossible not to be human, especially if you're a musician or poet or artist of
any kind::::PROBLEM: DEFINE HUMAN::::and how are computers not in some way human?::::::McLuhan::(they are extensions of us////they are objects extending from our perceptions):::!]

-----------!and about computer languages, I thinking this morning, which are really just TWO actions, two main methods of altering perception, or creating phenomena, the loop and the variable (not in that order::::and how maybe the fact that computer languages, which we shouldn't take TOOOOO seriously,
hecause after all they are not languages of the machine, which are the purest of abstracted languages, being binaries, on/off, pulse and energy-essence bursts::::are maybe analgous and not to human languages, which, stripped to their purest forms too, are simply ways of dealing with perception and by altering perception
creating phenomena, ------!::::::!--------AND ARE MAYBE JUST THAT, PULSES((((see Charles Olson:::::------!

 

(human spoken language is composed of at basebreath====which is also binary(((INOUT))))====think also of
C++:::cin///cout/////#include (iostream.h)::::i am probably of course simplifying things (or layer several simple things atop one another, also really just here pulses, an ascii that is at very beginning a pulse, which um now we have new relationships to deal with does it REFERENCE the email, this code behind or is it
something else::::is this a new signification?----------!

10101010101010110:& yes, maybe i'm being a bit conservative;-)----!

Binary is biology:::::::::

!----so, also (and I know you'll be interested in this, you old bastard, because you love God, you live in an awareness of the breath of the celestial::::::)i thinking also of the sacredness that has always accompanied technology, the amazement & attendant mysticism of the telephone, the radio, the televisiom::::those descriptions of the scientists huddled around the first computers, waiting at

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