{"id":512,"date":"2009-11-24T17:38:47","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T21:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=512"},"modified":"2009-11-24T17:38:47","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T21:38:47","slug":"synaptic-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2009\/11\/24\/synaptic-theater.html","title":{"rendered":"Synaptic Theater"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"right\">\n<table width=\"525\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\nLucidity keeps poking up out of my dreams lately. I wake up part way to ask: Where did that come from?<\/p>\n<p>I hear someone say something in a way that I&#8217;ve never heard in my real life, and I ask how something could be here if I never experienced it? How can people say things I never heard, in ways I never imagined, on a stage filled only with colluvies of my mind?<\/p>\n<p>Reading Charles Simic&#8217;s <cite>Classic Ballroom Dances<\/cite> poems I imagined the text could move. These words, hanging like slaughter in my mind, should physically move. Malleable but readable, I should be able to turn to my left and see &#8220;Begotten Of the Spleen&#8221; lurking, its words dangling like earthy wind chimes here in my living room, a jangling, resonant noise of airy calumny with boastful flourishes of shadows cast by words.<\/p>\n<p>Text hangs from a ceiling or rattles from the rear fender of a moving vehicle, readable but escaping a printed page. Flickable. Pages not turned because pages do not exist but ideas segue into each other when text is swatted or handled. &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; You could only model this idea in physical form. A reality of poetry hanging like meat in a freezer would be ridiculous . Or would it? Like a thicket of hippie beads from the 1970s one could walk through a strangle of text, submerged in words &#8212; arriving at what? Who cares? No finality is necessary. &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; A computer screen is too small and a movie theater is too impolitic a choice after the silliness the surrealists imbued upon it as a metaphor for the dream state.<\/p>\n<p>Hallucinogenics are not an option. The experience of the content and its presentation have to be re-creatable.<\/p>\n<p><b>Synaptic theater<\/b>. The next frontier of communicating text.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucidity keeps poking up out of my dreams lately. I wake up part way to ask: Where did that come from? I hear someone say something in a way that I&#8217;ve never heard in my real life, and I ask how something could be here if I never experienced it? How can people say things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreamland","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-8g","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}