fri8jan99
		(a secret)
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		here is a secret
		not really secret

		on network, thoughts and company taken together
		make things happen.

		no worse
		and likely a whole lotta love better
		than other forms of human and otherwise communication.

		here's a concrete example from living, not from logic:

		when a group of people are together
		there are patterns on top of the bodies present
		that if looked at with peripheral vision or
		directly (perhaps both)
		for

		"body language: the overt positions of the body and
		the movements of body parts of all bodies present"

		tell and communicate so much more than words of the
		present bodies taken separately as streams or as record
		of the time.

		at one point in some community group this last november
		in the hospital for behavior modification psychiatry
		i was convinced that we were "acting out"
		a distributed system equivalent to an atomic clock.

		that we _were_ an atomic clock for something.
		because it was important and not just as a demo.
		perhaps as an amplifier for other communication?

		i don't want to say more for fear of ridicule.
		and because those are my intuitions.
		and because that stuff is off topic here.

		and that the invitee-cherokee starting the hearth,
		the ceremonial cherokee starting the mirth, the one
		starting an another ceremony and present for that ritual
		the throwing of a little fuck a little joy into it

		was a necessary part of any such thing.

		and a clock is -- like -- the least complex thing alive
		one would posit or ponder.  a virus is a clock on its own
		dime.  acting out in a trajectory of spacetime.

		is that a secret?
		or is that just a private thought that could be not secret
		that could be.  understood and used.

		we have network.
		roger.  from our vantage point at last.  we have selfaware
		network.
		we always had poetry.  but now we have network.


			Marek Lugowski
			8 January 1999
			Chicago, Illinois