PRETZEL LOGIC No. 16 – Morton Feldman/Samuel Beckett, Neither (Hat Hut)
“Nothing is more real than nothing.” — Democritus
“Where you are worth nothing, there you should want nothing.” — Geulincx
Morton Feldman/Samuel Beckett, Neither (Hat Hut)
Any Western lit major will tell you, dude:
pretzel logic begets only mustard’s existential dread.
Apropos, I sought out Beckett’s Watt…by way of Kierkegaard.
Rudimentary, my sweet, dear Rikki.
Either/Or:
A circle and its centre in search of a centre and a circle, respectively;
a circle and its centre in search of its centre and a circle, respectively;
a circle and its centre in search of a centre and its circle, respectively;
a circle and a centre not its centre in search of its centre and its circle, respectively;
a circle and a centre not its centre in search of a centre and a circle, respectively;
a circle and a centre not its centre in search of its centre and a circle, respectively;
a circle and a centre not its centre in search of a centre and its circle…respectively.
Nothing I write is ever good enough. — Natasha Bedingfield, “These Words”
from Unwritten (Phonogenic, ‘04) **