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8/27/2007 幽冥。[Vol.3 Final]
26.In the rain or under a grey sky, in a weather that imparts little light, water is water less simply. 27.When it rains, fly-like specks mass briefly on the surface of the river. As each raindrop touches the water miniscule circles form: ephemeral geometries of contact. 28.Delicate textures, fugitive structures: more elusive treasure! 29.What are you thinking about? Are you paying attention to the numbers? Maybe you won't read all of these footnotes. Maybe you'll get tired and walk away.(But there are more--more pictures, more footnotes, behind you or down the hall or in another room.) 30.What are you thinking about? Rain falling on water is so evocative.(I remember places I've never been.) 31.What are you thinking about? Rain falling on water is so alluring, so soothing. 32.What are you thinking about? Rain falling on water flattens the reflections and tranquilizes the view. 33.What are you thinking about? Rain falling on water is so alluring, so soothing and tender. The river becomes a meadow, a soft place to lie down in. 34.Watching rain fall on water calms and quiets me. I feel the space of the river changed; it becomes more a part of the things around it: a part of the weather, a part of the sky, and somehow more a part of me. 35.Black water(this water)is never sweet. Black water(this water)is cold, often frigid, sometimes cool but never tepid. Black water(this water)is hard not soft. It's brash and rough; it might irritate; it still lubricates. It's often disturbed but it's never calm, at least not simply calm. It might be fresh, but you'd never know it and I'm sure you'd never believe it. It's frequently agitated. It's always troubled. I don't think you can question that, even when it appears quiet. Black water(this water)is never serene or brilliant or clear. It's unsettled even when still. It can be deep, but it's hard to know where. Even this water is wet, but mostly in a parching way. 8/23/2007 幽冥。[Vol.2]
11.Black water isn't sexy. 12.Black water isn't sexy.(That goes to the heart of it.) 13.Black water isn't sexy. That's the difference between water and this other water; one is sexy and the other isn't. 14.Black water isn't sexy.(When I'm looking at it I often wish I was looking at something else.) 15.Black water isn't sexy.(I've had frequent malodorous encounters around it.) 16.Black water isn't sexy.(Sometimes I'm not even sure of what it is I'm looking at.) 17.Black water isn't sexy.(But isn't it common to find dark things sexy?) 18.Black water is only the idea of water. 19.Black water is only the idea of water.(I'm not talking about fantasies or dreams.) 20.The Thames is dry.(Even in the rain the water looks matted and dull.) 21.When it rains, fly-like specks mass briefly on the surface of the river. Each raindrop is pin-sized bit of darkness, A dot seeming to flit and disappear. 22.A man yet to be identified was found in the river last week. The body was lying in a fetal position on the foreshore of Upper Pool. His ankles ware bound, and the rope was attached to his waist. 23.There are so many bridges over the Thames--it's a virtual forest. It's not like any other river that way. And they're all so invitingly scaled and full of character. They're not exactly the Hoover Dam, but who can relate the Hoover Dam?--I mean, Personally speaking? When you approach the Hoover or any other five-hundred-thousand-ton mass of concrete, there's nothing but distance between you and it. Even when you're standing on it the dam's still a distant view. And forget about the Colorado River, I mean where is it? Way the hell down there.(Seven hundred and twenty-six feet down there.)you wouldn't even know there was a river if it wasn't a dam. 24.There are so many bridges over the Thames--it's a virtual forest. It's not like any other river that way. And they're all so invitingly scaled and full of character. When I walk across the river, the bridge is an extension of the water--bringing me closer to it, into a more private and solitary experience of water. I know I'm not really closer, but it feels that way. 25.There are so many bridges over the Thames--it's a virtual forest. It's not like any other river that way. And they're all so invitingly scaled and full of character. They seem to include me somehow. And when I'm on one of them the river itself seems so invitingly scaled and full of character. Whenever I approach the river I hear it saying,"Hello there. Come on in."Or,"Welcome." 8/21/2007 幽冥。[Vol.1]
1. You say water is troubled or calm. You say water is rough and restless. You say water is disturbed. You say water is quiet. Water is serene and sometimes clear, it might be pure and then it is brilliant. Water is heavy; that's a fact. Water is often calm, even placid. Water is still and then it might be deep as well. Water is cold or hot, chilly or tepid. You say water is brash or brisk, sometimes crisp. You say water is soft and hard. You say water irritates and lubricates. You say water is foul. You say water is fresh. You say water is tranquil and languorous. You say water is sweet. 2. Is water sexy? 3. Water is sexy. 4. Water is sexy. It's the power and the vulnerability of it; it's the energy and the fragility of it. 5. Water is sexy. It's the indifference of it. 6. Water is sexy.(The sensuality of it tantalizes me when I'm near it.) 7. Water is sexy.(I want to look at it. I want to touch it. I want to quench my thirst with it. I want to quench all my thirsts with it. I want to cool my body with it. I want to heat my body with it. I want to feel it all over me and around me and beyond me.) 8. Water is sexy.(I want to swin in it--to move, song-like, through it. I want to swim in it--push, kick, thrash, slide myself through it. I want to swim in it. I want to be held by it.) 9. Water is sexy.(I want to dip myself in it. I want to feel its liquid form slipping over my skin. I want to feel its liquidness washing me all over, washing all over me. I want to feel the fluid mass of it rushing among the parts of me: my hairs, my fingers, my toes, me eyes, my ears. I want to be near it. I want to immerse myself in ti. I want to feel it cooling the heat of me. I want to go deep into it; I want to go deeper still into it. I want to feel the weight of it lighten me, ease me, release me. I want it.) 10 Is water sexy? |
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