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To: Gauguin who wrote (9018)	3/27/1998 10:39:00 AM
From: BlueCrab	Respond to of 71178

Gaugs -- <<(Fade to cheers......>> Loud and prolonged... Jeff

To: Gauguin who wrote (9018)	3/27/1998 11:37:00 AM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Gawd, I loved this. A veritable smorgasbord. I won't eat it all at once. Ferrofluid pictures: "spiky bracelets, Chinese checkerboard, black durian skin..." There's a place I've seen such patterns before. Such...exact...patterns. I don't think magnetism is involved, although our resident shamanic practitioner(s) may dissent. Check out Oliver Sacks' book titled Migraine. Within is a brief section of plates, artists' representations of the visual artifact of some migraines. The phenomenon rather ominously termed a scintillating scotoma. Sounds instantly deadly, doesn't it? If you look at it, tell me if you see what I mean.

To: Gauguin who wrote (9018)	3/28/1998 12:33:00 AM
From: flickerful	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

It's got bracelety patches of coney spikes, like spider eyes, or black durian skin, or pointy gumdrop papaya roe. On a Chinese Checker board of glassy greens and cinched canals of caution yellow. Exactly. the surface images. the Surface of Things: Images of the Extraordinary in Science. i am knee deep in your remarkable surface, wading back and forth in the cinched canals as i heed the caution signs and stare as though through glassy green lenses. i like it so much here that i don't want to leave. you have graced me with blessed superficiality. i can traverse with ease and savor the miracles of science. i want nothing that isn't here, and i need no more than i already have.

To: Gauguin who wrote (9018)	3/28/1998 1:21:00 AM
From: flickerful	Respond to of 71178

a diversion: multimedia.bell-labs.com

To: Gauguin who wrote (9018)	3/29/1998 11:23:00 AM
From: Rambi	Respond to of 71178

Paul, Paul..it's funny-I am rereading your post-I read it yesterday but I was rushing and got nowhere. Your posts have to be read a word, a phrase, a thought, at a time when one is relaxed with nothing pressing and invading from without. The mind has to be open to anything and predicting nothing. And then your words kaleidoscope into sudden and breathtaking images. It's better than a Tilt-a- Whirl. Timmy and Frank, who later sat around drinking their Buds and and reliving their wonderful day of father-son togetherness. I feel sure they were Texans, although I suppose New Mexicans are kissin cousins, or worse. Guns and manhood. And religion, or maybe the guns are a religion. I haven't figured this out yet. CW's track coach is a very committed Christian, he and the other coaches always wear shirts that say say PLAY HARDER only they changed the L to an R. Is that legal? CW said the coach likes CW's name(which is really Christian). I asked if he told him he was an atheist. CW said, "No. I barely made the team as it is." You are thinking-where did this come from? Well-it came from Frank and Timmy-really. This coach loves to hunt and shoot things. And this week he told them about looking out the window and seeing a skunk in his yard and getting one of his-probably huge collection-guns, and shooting it and describing where he hit it-splat-how it died immediately. And one of the boys said, "Man, Coach, that was mean. Why'd you kill it?" and the Coach said, "Because it was in my yard". Like it knew? Like-it was intentionally trespassing. Probably with vandalism in mind, don't you think? He had a few cherrybombs tucked in his mouth? A can of spraypaint in his little paw? Boy-I said, "CW-do not go near this man's yard." Don't you think the coach would have understood Frank and Timmy and their bonding time immediately? I hope he doesn't read SI. I'm sure he's a great guy. CW really likes him. What did you do with the oil filter? Is it framed over the couch? Or on display in your dining room breakfront with the good china? Whhere did the word breakfront come from? I'm going to go look it up and get another cup of coffee.