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From: Tom Devaney
To: edwin torres
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 12:08 AM
Subject: every email is our first

edwin,

good to see you tonight. it's funny when I see you in person we often talk of our emails and on email we talk about seeing each other person. people are funny, that is, we, the people.

t. devaney in the diamond* district

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From: edwin torres
To: Tom Devaney
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 7:59 AM
Subject: Re: every email is our first

if we the people were as funny as you say, we the people would laugh at us the laughers! let me now talk the talk said filled of THE! because then I am obliged to walk this walk, I did once walking the walk led me nowhere! what is the deal of this walk that people say you must walk only because I have talked what they the people have said is talk! I never asked my talk to be called 'the talk' why enshrine the levitation with needless THE'ing? there is too much THE for the people. if we the people did all the talking why is there no walking? why do we the they or the us stay happy remote folk-trolls couched in front of screen flicking the entrails of america's collective bargain? while we're at it, as we as they are, let me now say ALSO as a preface to what follows implying following! if we the followers were as noisy as you say, although I am here, putting in your mouth unfoundings by way of implyings, and all manner of those'ings...then we the followers would allow us the followed to be one and the same...making us be the we you say!

every email is our first!

Edwin

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From: Tom Devaney
To: edwin torres
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 7:23 AM
Subject: Cenus V. Sense & Us

E,

walking, talking, american b-ball balking-the THE is the curse of the people. Though I didn't say anything about our virtual noise, it's good to address the hidden boisterousness of play, pong and the holy un-royal. Esp. in our troubled times of the great "Us, Them" we-code.

Still unpacking,
TD

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From: Tom Devaney
To: edwin torres
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 5:19 PM
Subject: edwin t. & elizabeth c's reading

edwin,

I won't be able to go to your reading tonight. I am going out to a dinner. Still, I am sorry to miss this reading. Elizabeth's performance on the trampoline on New Year's day at St. Mark's was smart and fun. The hour format of Elena's Mad Alex series provides the reader/artist/performer great room to stretch, which makes esp. sense with your work.

When I was in SF last week I interviewed the 97 year-old Objectivist poet Carl Rakosi. One of the things he said, and I am taking this wildly out of context, is that, "I disliked the Surrealist, I am a realist first." I am wondering if you see you work in terms of either of these terms?

-TD

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From: edwin torres
To: Tom Devaney
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: edwin t. & elizabeth c's reading

The unfortunate truth is that I believe I am a Sir before a Realist

Yes, Elizabeth is a fair trampolinist but she is a much better poet. will tell you how it went. Yes an hour is room enough for these wings to flap...as Khlebnikov sez in his epic masterpiece 'Zangezi' - "Room, my friends...to roam!"

best
Edwin

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From: Tom Devaney
To: Edwin T.
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2001 11:05 AM
Subject: Source Material

Edwin,

My pong table's turned upside down. Things have been a little rough. I've been looking for work and haven't been working at a job, for 3 weeks plus now. So, it's squeeze city. I've been using the time (when not worrying) to write think and do more. I saw the Blake show on at the Met Thursday.

"The hours of folly are measur'd by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure." -B's Marriage

Blake Blakes your heart.. The big plural 'you' in his anything but simple details colors boldness. He's is a real teacher in that he gets us to think and feel for ourselves. He 'teaches well', because in his simplicity, greatness and origional energy, he continues to teach us.

Read last night of the demonstations in Canada. The events energize and give license to the police & state as much as people & puppets in dissent.

yours,
TD

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