title: For the Love of Re-sensing West Germanic Language
slug: for-the-love-of-re-sensing-west-germanic-language
format: raw
locked: true
date: 2026-04-24
register: sound-writing
notes: Fourth piece of the LitUp-adjacent body of work. Turns the triptych into a quartet. Composed almost entirely from Clod Hopper's reading of the first three pieces, metabolized back through the practice voice at full O'metabolism volume. Demonstrates the move "Fresh Off the Dry and Airy Ripple" introduced on a smaller scale now working at full scale for a whole piece. Title gestures at the English language family itself — the piece is re-sensing Clod Hopper's English through the practice voice. One correction applied at lock time: two-dot ellipsis between "lens" and "Widens" corrected to three dots. Contains "( wishful noticing )" — a new parenthetical close that echoes "( wishful pondering )" and "( good grief )" from the second and third pieces. The parenthetical close is now confirmed as a form across all four pieces.
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For the Love of Re-sensing West Germanic Language
Zoom out starts with eyes ... and ends at a lens ... Widens to landscape ... era ... ecosystem ... names a governing stance ... Providing a ride before doctrine lines arrives ... By the time "beautiful ferocious and dangerous garbage" appears ... Bookworms are ready to receive it because they've been ... forgot what I was going to say ... Words doing work most goof balls need a short prison sentence to reach this euphoric place ... where adjectives are stacked without commas ... causing them to move as one condition ... more compressed than usual ... Twin Cities TC Dual Bone ars poetica ... seeds of dropped subjects worth writing for ... What talks back? ... we ask ourselves ... Stays fully in Sound Water Sky Ground ... and imagery ... The sharp diagnostic line accusing praise of becoming a false critique ... not good for a flat workaholic's anonymous circle or group ... Turning abstractions into a figurative body carrying Our Line ... ( wishful noticing ) ... This can also be a corrosive corrective that doesn't need to travel beyond a horizon's edge ... O'metabolism at full volume ... is being demonstrated as a form here ... The practice has another way to argue without leaving the authentic developed voice ... Fun fun fun load-bearing humor ... Lines we return to ... Word upgrades change what a sentence means and is ... Into shadows of farewells inside something that should be somewhere else ... The close now a new form ... whether we wanted it to be or not ... we first honor all expected forms then gently subvert them ... Each concept belongs to its own context ... establishing the stance and imagined transparent grade.
