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Gravitational Intrigue
TED WARNELL

Volume 22cd
of The Little Magazine, Gravitational Intrigue, is "an international collection of hypermedia work written in HTML, VRML, as sound machines and digital toys, as movies, animations, and hypertexts".

On the CD, new media artists, poets, authors, theorists, and publishers from around the globe including Zn contributors Bill Marsh, Christy Sheffield Sanford, Mark Amerika, Miekal And, and Reiner Strasser... and many, many more. Very fine!

Gravitational Intrigue: an anthology of emergent hypermedia is published on CD-ROM by The Little Magazine, English Department, State University of New York at Albany. It can be purchased from The Little Magazine for US $15. See their Web site for more information:
 

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Also new this week...
from the pen of Francis Raven, three delightful works, Three Shapes of a Thought...

"I am a student at The Evergreen State College studying the philosophy of language. At the moment I am attempting to figure out how much philosophy can fit into literature and how much literature can fit into philosophy."

1.

All of us were working on notes for bigger things -- airplanes and submarines, paintings and novels. I was working on the perfect note -- first I had to find the perfect pen and the perfect store at which to buy that pen and the perfect time to buy it at and from which cashier to buy it from...

2.

Coil a forest around your pulse; now wrapped in wood; shrouded in something that could not possibly shroud you. I mean you couldn't really coil a forest around your pulse, but it's a nice poetic image, or at least, I like it. It's nice to be a poet, but also nice to know when the poetry becomes too pure, too poetic, too meaningless or impossible.

3.

I am asking for synthetic papers as opposed to analytic ones. Analytic papers merely say that the set of X includes, as elements, a, b, c, d, etc. In effect an analytic paper only gives us the tautology that X=X, or that a book, when analyzed, means exactly what that book means. A synthetic paper would say, "Yes, a, b, c, d, etc., are members of X. But look, a variation of b is also a member of Y. The b in X and the b in Y are connected by n." It is this n which is the essence of a pure thought -- this connection between two sets or books or paintings or ideas becomes an element in the set of the writer's connective thoughts. It is this set of thoughts and this way of thinking which allows a person to interpret the world and to connect two varying ways of description (i.e., painting and philosophy).
 

CD-ROM cover images copyright 1999 by The Little Magazine, SUNY. Poetry copyright 1999 by Francis Raven. Used by permission.
 
 
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