- Is a day, sending two messages, going for a swim, making a soup & doing the crossword, enough?
- The human rights watch articulates clearly on tv
- Debating, not without minimal despair, the applications
- Something feels unwell, or wasted (time-sick)
- I do not wish to think about cutting into bodies, of bodies being cut into
- I still wish to explore patterns
- What does the metrical mean?
- The brain / mind wishes to garner momentum
- Thinking of Anne Carson’s Decreation
- What was out of the blue today?
- Where am I when I’m …
- There is the science and the jut of parataxis
- I still have no alternative phrase for “kill two birds with one stone”
- I am wanting an alternative phrase for the violence of the expression is just a bit too much for me
- Imagine throwing a rock at a bird, killing it, and having the rock ricochet off the dead bird and striking and killing another bird
- To achieve two things at once
- In one fell swoop
- Fuck.
- …
- At Avalon Airport aboard the Skybus to Geelong
- About to turn onto the highway I see a magpie whose wing is caught between barbed wire
- It’s in obvious distress, flapping its wings futilely, how long has it been
there - I consider calling the airport to alert them so they can assess the situation and rescue the bird
- But I do not make the call
- I am thinking feeling bad is irresponsible if it is not acted on
- I am irresponsible
- I am not even close to conceiving of an alternative phrase
- Though it is daydreamed of
- Today on the bus, chin on arms leaning on the seat in front of me, I am listening to Is this desire? While driving through the Adelaide Hills (I have
never been to the Adelaide Hills) - Meandering still feels lost on me
- Happiest when contemplating the crossword grid, the ‘performative encounter’ which allows for new positions, unexpected collisions, potentialialites
- The benefit of multidisciplinary (often spoken of) but is it taken on
- Of metaphor (according to Ricoeur) of placing two different things side by side to create new and meaningful relations
- I didn’t realize people are so scared of metaphor
- The people who are scared of metaphor are throwing stones and killing their chances
- Reading about the fragment and blank space
- Ancients texts are made fragments by history. Modern texts by design.
- This is not fragmentary
- I am more interested in how to be the opposite of atomised
- How to be the opposite of neo-liberal
- It’s better not to be teleological
- It’s harder
- How to unatomise the fragment
- How to not kill birds
Ella Skilbeck-Porter
Avalon Airport / How to Unatomise the Fragment
1 August 2018
