created 2025-03-26, & modified, =this.modified
rel: Praxilla
A text that is cut outs, but the entire text is at the edges. All meaningful text is clipped and you are left with meaningless text that is presented.
the semantics are mostly missing). It is immediately, presently archeological.
Like if this this the page
| off page | page | off page |
|---|---|---|
| I love | you | r name. |
| someone n | ear m | e. |
| But multiple dimensions. |
- You can shred it.
- You can burn it.
- You can eat.
I made a connection here.
Just prior to this, I was discussing drive RAID with a colleague.
RAID is a kind of actual magic (redundancy) where information can be “retrieved,” from where it was absent by understanding the properties of binary sums.
It’s like if we distributed you memory, or the memory of the page, in such a way that we could reconstitute a page in a book (but not quite.)
Perhaps we should start RAIDing our texts (learning to read in binary and addition)?
Reading Paris Peasant by Louis Aragon, I see an example of the above, inverted. I would want the middle section here excised, and only the clipped periphery remaining. A puzzle.
Re-reading notes Orality and Literacy - Ong and Hartley and the mention of Boustrophedon, or writing left to right and then alternating right to left. There is is a protective element to this style, where length of text is regular, so fragments can be better inferred.