Things categorized as 'touch'
Posted on June 5th .
Another marker: I'm able to have dinner somewhere with D. I get to choose where, and so I choose Indonesian food at Sateh Bar. T., a friend of ours recommended ...
Posted on June 5th .
"Writing will endure", is the saying. Language is the bridge between sight and not-sight, between the world of then and the world of now, between me and you. I tried ...
Posted on June 4th .
J. has returned from Russia, and already this morning, at 6.30 AM, the phone rang: the pain of separation was too great to bear, L. and J. had to be ...
Posted on April 27th .
My dreaming is already different and it turns out that memories are not "pictures" but instead are other-sensory visions. Obviously, now that the modality in which they were generated and ...
Posted on April 26th .
The staff is the staff of the herald and of the augur. The keryx, the aggello, the messenger, someone who comes before us to announce what follows. It is the ...
Posted on April 25th .
Odd how disembodiment was the most immediate effect of losing vision. The bodies of others and my own body as well. It would be easy to say the body sees ...
Posted on April 25th .
I'm in the Anywhere. Space is mainly time, but not quite. Simultaneous occurrences exist there, but without the conventions of perspective and distance. I walk across Pont d'Iena and I ...
Posted on April 23rd .
Procedure is following pre-determined steps in time to arrive at a result. The steps all concern converting spatial information to a format I can perceive. I consider sighted help much ...
Posted on April 21st .
I still remember the shock when A. taught me to hear lamp posts. Out of nowhere I realized part of my surroundings. Every country, every city has a rhythm to ...
Posted on April 21st .
The flow of the streets has been replaced by the flow of voices. Voices in the market, in bars and tabacs, voices on the bus, in parks. Conversations within earshot, ...
