“And when all bodies meet,

In Lethe to be drowned,

Then only numbers sweet

With endless life are crowned”. (Herrick after Creeley)

Who will worship numbers and words after the extinction of mankind? Is there a possibility that numbers and words have an existence separated from mankind? By words – spoken and written words – gods and humans are binded together. When mankind is killed, nobody will be there to pay attention to the gods. Now, Herrick separates – delimites – numbers from their connection with mankind. This is another way of saying, that numbers and words are a delicate matter: This is another way of saying, that numbers and words demand attention. They have to be set up carefully. Because – as Herrick defines -, they may have a long existence: An existence which survives – like nuclear waste – those who set them into being. They have to be set up carefully, they have to be written and read carefully, because the existence of others, like the existence of gods or of future generations, depends on their setting. So words and numbers have a something in common with nuclear energy and nuclear waste. So words, numbers – as Herrick defines – demand our attention and our compassion.

Nils Röller at Sanskriti Kendra/New Delhi

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Dass wir so wenig Zündstoff, so mangelhaften Antrieb und metergrosse Meilensteine im Anhänger geladen hatten, wussten wir nicht einmal. Als hätten wir Zeltstoff gegessen letzte Nacht und im Wohnwagen fast vermooste Käferlarven gesehen, so hell und freundlich begannen der neue Morgen und sein Tau. Kein anderer Magen in der Umgebung hatte härtere Erbsen als unserer. Dieser Tag, der einfach nur stofflich war.

“There is a possibility in reading and writing, which knows words as in the world as much the same way that men are …” (Robert Creeley*)

How will the word “India”, how will the word “compass” perform in this blog on Art, Sex and Mathematics?

A blog which sets words like “India” and “compass” into a field of force generated by others words like “art”, “sex” and “mathematics.” The word “compass” gets another dimensions when reading Thich Nhat Hanh. The instrument becomes something that connects a mathematical and a emotional approach to the world. A world which philosophers like Kant and Descartes regard as an object, as something which is objecting the inner self, which is a barrier to the self, a barrier which the self hardly overcomes, but tries to overcome.

The compass is an instrument which indicates a way of dealing with this specific western problem. The word “India” invites to understand oneself as a needle. A needle which is displaying the tensional field of sensual experiences. The needle follows the movements of the field created by colors, vehicles and gentle speaking women, who prepare with dignity the soil for growing seeds.

The needle is not nothing. The needle needs to be set up carefully. It requires attention in order to perceive the connections of the needle with the field of experiences the word “India” and the many worlds it contains.

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“not to fathom time but literally to sound” (Zukofsky)

Time, may I sound, fathom time, sound it, her or him?

Is there any itting himming or herring of time?

Time,

A herstrument, a himstrument and itstrument.

An itstrument, a true mentherhimment.

A means for becoming something,

For becoming it.

It: something freed from any me elements,

Freed towards becoming a mere non-me thing, an it.

A mediament,

Compassing the medium between her, him, me and non-me.

A commediament

A compassional medium,

An itstrument.

Becoming it by the time,

The itstrument, the herstrument, the himstrument,

Him-, her-, it-true-mentalizes me

Making something out of me

By itting, herring, himming me with time,

The in strument of time, the truement of inning by time,

Inning in order to out me of elements of me.