The Letter Holder 17 October 2026

The Letter Holder 17 October 2026
- Tallest Heritage Building (unfinished), Najd style, Riyadh, 2 November 2025

theatre

what is theatricality if not the awareness of the absence of support of the stage as immaterial?


Make-believe Not Necessary Any Longer
We Need the Truth Told Us.

–Lonnie Holly


theatre aligns with suspensions—as judgement it is a suspension


... evolve into human exceptionalism ... contemporary neurobiology supports this view—seeing a "Cartesian Theater," a scene without a stage, as did Hume.


... all the way down to the chairs in the auditorium bearing their names


cinema

ideas for sound Sound + David Lynch: multipersonal POV, shifting perspective, slippery sounds.


technology of writing—and we don't—motoric-habitual—notice it—memorial—its pulling in other image—attentive—we notice both our own responses and the shaping.

& technology of a ratchet grabbing a perforated ...


names

Charles Sirato–L'Histoire d'une nuit
Isamu Noguchi–sculptor

name ... I think of you: Alice Sebold. I think of all the other murderers' accomplices and now the ones who know neither how to praise nor how to name.


voyeurs
voyageurs
en repos Leonora Fini
scarves on eyes


Lonnie Holly


institutions

  • State patronage
  • Civic patronage
  • Corporate patronage (does not really exist—although this is now the model for all other forms of existing patronage)
  • Private patronage

China Miéville imagines a railway. I would like to reimagine it as a railroad of disappointment of the left.


a wonderful and inexplicable feeling: where are the possible institutions to believe in


when is data code? When is information legible in information?


discover a natural force in data to be overcome at the moment fetishised!


in this case the instrumentation is taken for the representation but it is symbolic—that is the revelation.


where is the faith in justice
what is the rule of law
where is the hope to save us
what is the truth at all


But the collapse as an individual experience—incapable of ... social affirmation(?)


the real to be noticed—an aggression.


a part of you remembers paradise, the part with no regret, because a part of you recognised it to be paradise, because despite what is said paradise is real, and we do know when we are there, at least a part of us does, the part that lives solely for the present moment, without past or future, without expectation for the future or resentment for the past

Le Paradis n'est pas artificiel
–Ezra Pound, The Cantos

Le Paradis n'est pas artificiel, mais il n'existe qu'en fragments inattendus
–Jean d'Ormesson

cf. Gilles Deleuze and the Third Schema of Perception


women pretend to believe and believe in belief; men pretend to pretend and end up believing


flooding chaos
—with what?


critical functions

forms of negation

forces of confusion

All the forms of negation → vacuoles: have in common what they lack—they really have nothing in common in relation to what is lacked = inconveniences

Human absence; death, the forms of negation seen to go outside.
science.
sickness—madness—out?

What is most convenient is there for what is most inconvenient.
→critical of it?
→turns it?
but to?


poetry of nonparticipation


aperçus

... you proceed up to higher numbers, the fewer numbers there are—any number can be one. Only half of all numbers can be two or equal two. Even infinite numbers can be one.


I will not participate in my own capture (or captivity).


masculinity is a Platonism: the shadow does not me


You fill yourself with shit to fill your emptiness


some people don't know how to tell a story. Some people know


casual because stupid, cruel without care. The casual cruelty of stupid people.


profligacy


Beautiful the way Gilles Deleuze ends his book on Michel Foucault.


Choosing similar subjection to all others I
(cannot help you)
Do you remember when we had weather?
We don't have weather any more, we have events.
–Stewart Lee


...of the practical problem, we can say = it can be said, or one can say: on the threshold or at the limit of the sayable there is—to say—which has primacy. in light of this ... therefore and lastly—time.


content to build for themselves, as if in danger from the bigger world—but who knows if it is a reaction or an abreaction or a ...


Husserl's task, that Lingis writes is extraordinary, is to go from absolute consciousness to absolute corporeity.


___________world
___________whole
___________identity
___________novelists
___________whole
___________again
___________philosophers
___________working—
________the truth
_____out of reach


Say only you—"surly interlocutor" (Difference and Repetition, p. 166)—methods consist in his affirmation


What if we go straight to the plane of consistency? The plane of consistency is a garden to the philosopher. In it grows what is good as well as what is bad; what pleases the philosopher, what displeases.

What if we graft more pleasing ideas onto those that displease us?

It is territorial—Get the guards!!! and jump the fence and infiltrate.

Is the plane of abstraction not just one part, one area in an otherwise overgrown garden?

What if the secret garden of philosophy invaded that policed by corpocratic consensus and interests?

(like the plane in Minus of Affect.)

or the wider social planes, deserts, mushroom patches? (not to return to it its repressed but—AND) plane of decomposition.

p. 192 Grosz: "collective existence provides a 'much vaster' place, or many."


we are not equal to the world and we are not equal before the world.


there is no centre of the self that matters not externally derived


it takes place as long as it takes time


the following written on Ritz-Carlton notepaper, Kuala Lumpur

if you look for a meaning
you'll miss everything that happens

–Tarkovsky


fragments

(in some cases from existing works pieces series)

he asks her do you love her
he asks him do you love her

will the objects of our hearts be grey
will your eyes open on mine

classroom windows
will I dream in them

will I look into them and yearn again
will I dream in them

a thousand years from now
a thousand miles from here

will our hair be grey?
my hat is grey
will the objects of our hearts be grey?

days turn grey midweek
grey of daydreams
grey outside every classroom window

sweetsmelling grey
of a thousand years from now
forever grey
forever out of reach

forced to write in Secret
recoil from what is secret
force public recoil

    the most transgressive
    Caetano you can do
    is play quietly
     pianissimo

lost to their backs I
cry

I make a poison challice


the mistake of some who say the sanctity of marriage etc., but in the coming out of saints there is this sanctity. Veils of language. Health and safety. Journey of the language of love and history of this journey, which is the personal history and sanctity of the personal.

&

in a world that's this naughty but no less expensive it would be a missed opportunity today not to wonder if they could that the saints might come out (and in the coming out of saints ...). Camp invention of gay marriage.


cups them
 cough

cough cough

like a movie
  in the truck
like a movie
  in the trough

old man
  how are you holding up?

Miss ... said
  speaking
  from notes
    speaking
speaking notes

how do you manage to live without anticipation
hiccup/s

Choose your light carefully
torch has batteries
candle kerosense
  burn out

in this moonless night.
Some of you have fixed your eyes
on stars

you too will be lost
when the day comes

others choose the light
of grace that burns within

they will be condemned
to wander
in circles

in the endless night.
You will all have a miserable fate.

I hold
your
breath.


put the glass back together again


You're talking in
a wise but you
cannot change
back.

You can
but you cannot
change back.

but you cannot.


One day I thought I'd approach as if I was dreaming then my dreams caught up with me...

Buddhist Nun dying. Another as if I did not belong here

weather began to change, behaviours became more chaotic, human more predictable: migration patterns, insects, birds, events, man affirmed man in his pattern.


corrosive bubbles ate the head

the swerve of the infinite

life

nowhere symmetry


a gaseous blue light of dawn, June the 6th, suddenly all the anxiety was worth it—I'm getting ahead of myself with that thought, because I felt it before I thought it.


They're seeking some quiet in the Nile
   flooded with neon air


–Do you have your library card?

–My ... library card... But I'm ...

–Dead, yes. You're a day late.


The eye to eye


if you know so much


_______together side by side
at the best, it will be silent

_______or the name of which he doesn't know perhaps he will show he has no need to it will be a he most certainly


I dreamt of dble carbide locks

A mawkish sexuality
avoid
   (not sentimentality)

I dreamt of the removal of plumbing
& 7 people—incl.
      passport forger


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