Item by Item Meditation on a Networked World
- The world has always been networked.
- The world is already networked.
- Sex is networking,
- as is music and all the arts,
- including the art of cooking
- which has long since needed a patron muse.
- I would suggest maybe a guy named Gormaldo.
- Just a suggestion.
- I mean really, who hasn't connected over food?
- Now.
- Reading and writing is networking too.
- And speaking of reading,
- a good receptive reader is fertile with a kind of blindness,
- like a potato's eye just on the verge of sprouting.
- The idea here is that you read expecting your eyes to sprout toward the indicative light of the text.
- Sometimes this sprouting happens, sometimes it does not.
- Incidentally some writers are cool, others are not.
- Try to read the cool ones, who sound like catbirds
- because they love the variety of the song of life
- and put their words together with a sense of sympathy and poise and an easy sense of wonder.
- By the way, it's probably obvious but
- garrulousness is a plus as well as an A+ when it comes to networking.
- Now to change the subject one more time,
- Catbirds are sonic bricoleurs.
- They make their songs out of other birds' songs.
- So there you have it. That's what they do,
- and to get to the point,
- all language is a phenomenon which is sort of reducible to
- millions and millions of catbirds in the human brain
- that say stuff out of an enthusiasm for networking, and what they say is:
- Reader, thou has sprouted.
- I mean, if you have.
