"1
To come to
in the middle
of a vibrato—
an “is”—
that some soprano’s
struggling
to sustain.
2
To be awake
is to discriminate
among birdcalls,
fruits, seeds,
“to work one’s way,”
as they say,
“through.”
3
Just now
breaking
into awareness,
falling forward,
hurtling inland
in all innocence"
Armantrout, Rae. "Sustained." Conjunctions, no. 54 (2010): 156.
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“This was just a bad period and everyone said that things would be better soon when they ‘hit the number’ or their ‘ship came in.’ The future was viewed as a something to look forward to with hope. Besides, the regular tasks of each day kept us busy. Our clothes had to be washed by hand, scrubbed on a washboard, and white things boiled…"
Ringgold, Faith. We Flew over the Bridge: The Memoirs of Faith Ringgold. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. p. 13.
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Duke University Press
“As bacteria multiply through binary fission—one cell dividing into two new ones—the new generations of bacteria carry the mutations forward in a process called vertical transmission. Bacteria can also acquire resistance genes through hospitalized patients.”
Strathdee, Steffanie A., and Thomas L. Patterson. The Perfect Predator: A Scientists Race to save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir. London: Hachette Books, 2020. p. 102.
theperfectpredator.com
“Baba Ayub kept his head down and walked. When his shoes fell apart, he fastened them to his feet with strings, and when the strings tore he pushed forward on bare feet. In this way, he traveled across deserts and valleys and mountains.”
Hosseini, Khaled. And the Mountains Echoed. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013. p. 7.
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Bloomsbury
“a miracle always there might bring us closer to reconciliation inside
restless métisse commingling voices of errançities wandering within
magic the mystery of creation pulling us forward to wonder to know
human possibility is always a miraculous gift is always a conundrum”
Troupe, Quincy. “Errançities.” Errançities. Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 2012.
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“Every group is territorial, each moves within a given zone, even nomads stay within boundaries. A people living in a desert or grassland with great visible spaces that invite you to step forward and walk as far as you can see will range across tens of thousands of square miles.”
Snyder, Gary. The Practice of the Wild. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990. p. 27.
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BeWild ReWild
“Mention sex, fruit, candy, exchange value, cities, securities, books, the wheel, the cinema, land forms, sky. To be eaten by the sentimentality of your own situation. Water towers with happy faces. There are a thousand threads of forward motion in the social explosion of our times, a thousand threads to untangle and engage.”
Silliman, Ron. The Age of Huts (compleat). Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007. p. 83.
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University of California Press
“Wake at dawn with a song in my ‘heart’: ‘I love what you do to
me, Toyota.’
Say we only experience our lives as going forward in time and that
it’s really just the opposite.
Sitting here in the dark, waiting for the dream to recede.”
Silliman, Ron. "Ⓡ." Conjunctions, no. 21 (1993): 167.
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"Winding throwing forward
writhing throwing forward
skin of snake rising
to heaven rising
heart beats continuously
tail wants to exterminate
tail wants to exterminate
tail wants to move
trembling.”
Rothenberg, Jerome. “Snake Chant / Storm Chant.” Technicians of the Sacred a Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1969. p. 75. Miriam Koshland (tr.,) “Six Chants from the Congo,” Black Orpheus: A Journal of African & Afro-American Literature, No. 2 (January 1958), pp. 19-21.
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“Formally, this appears to the object as just another trigger, although for speed and simplicity it is coded as a plain function callback. Logical time marches forward in a purely deterministic way, irrespective of any real-time delays engendered by CPU load or the operating system.”
Puckette, Miller. "Max at Seventeen." Computer Music Journal 26, no. 4 (2002): 10. doi:10.1162/014892602320991356.
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MIT
“Sounds beyond the limits of the ear may be gathered by other sensory systems of the body.
Extreme Slow Walk
The Exercise
Moving as slowly as possible, step forward with the heel to the ground first, let the weight of the body shift along the outside edge of the foot to the small toe and across to the large toe.”
Oliveros, Pauline. “Listening Journal.” Deep Listening: A Composer's Sound Practice. New York: iUniverse, 2005. p. 20.
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iUniverse
“The slender tops fairly flapped and swished in the passionate torrent, bending and swirling backward and forward, round and round, tracing indescribable combinations of vertical and horizontal curves, while I clung with muscles firm braced, like a bobolink on a reed.”
Muir, John. The Writings of John Muir: Sierra Edition. Vol. I. The Mountains of California. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917. p. 280.
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Internet Archive
“The word ‘utopia’ is derived from two Greek words: utopos, which means ‘good place,’ and outopos, which means ‘no place’—a nonexistent space that is imaged into consciousness by an expectation of what the future could be. Utopian thinking can be nostalgic, a looking back in order to move forward; a sense that in order to hypothesize the idealized future, one has to imagine an ideal past, the lost Eden or Atlantis, an imaginary conflation of time and place when the species cohabitated in an idyllic condition.”
Becker, Carol. "The Space Between What Is and What Wants to Be: The Abandoned Practice of Utopian Thinking." PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art 38, no. 1 (2016): 6-13. doi:10.1162/pajj_a_00290. p. 8.
Project Muse
“In such actions one’s life becomes identified with time beyond all illusion and, surprisingly, internal stillness can result, even though we are painfully aware that, although we can slow time down, it is always moving forward. In fact, we are time. It exists in and around us and is manifested in our final dissolution. ‘Living is nothing but consuming time until you die,’ Hsieh says.”
Becker, Carol. “Afterthoughts: Stilling the World.” In Out of Now: The Lifeworks of Tehching Hsieh, by Adrian Heathfield and Tehching Hsieh. London: MIT Press and Live Art Development, 2009. p. 3. (PDF)
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MIT Press