An interlude

An interlude

9/30/2001

I suspect the psychology of the OD is quickly catching up with me. Spent the whole afternoon skulking around different ODs and trying to read stuff quickly - must have spent up to 3 hours doing it ... and didn't get to write anything because the server was down.

There's an Underworld

Not an Underground that is dark and dangerous

Not an illegal smuggling of gossip -

But an Underworld in the sense that Don DeLilio uses it -

We know of the significance of events, of their place in history, or identities and men, only because of the traces left behind. The tremendous amount of debris, of "waste", of what is disposed = rubbish, constitues this underworld. Some objects are more valued - they become antiques, some less they become land-fill

But regardless, it's this Underworld that charts the movements of our lives.

"Is cyberspace a thing within the world or is it the other way around? Which contains the other, and how can you tell for sure?" UW, DD 826