Introductions

These are tricky things. I'm Jean. I have no business card. In fact, I misspell the word business so regularly that it has become one of the words I avoid on that account. I am a student (of law) hoping eventually to teach. My son (i really should have said this first...) is named Jacob, and the two of us live in a funny little house in Toronto.

Here is a picture of my new house. What you can't see in the image is the man in the 5th floor window across the street who looks out every day, all day long until dark, at the street and the snow (when there is any), and the pigeons and the mailman, and never goes anywhere. Sometimes his wife sits beside him and they both look out the window. It makes me feel nervous but I don't know why. In other news, I have developed a fine-bone-china-tea-cup-and-saucer-fetish. It's a very expensive habit though, so I'm trying to cut down. I am finally reading books I like again, after a very long hiatus, and thinking about time. I am also sleeping on a very high bed, custom built by Bill so that he can walk underneath it without bumping his head, so at night before I go to sleep I am also thinking a good deal about death.

Reesa

My point of departure has been posted under seven point three. And I look forward to working with you all. Who, er, are you?

--Zack Finch: I washed dishes with Reesa at the breadloaf writer's conference a couple of summers ago. In between lunch and dinner rushes, we managed to swim in silver lake and pick up a few blackberries. Right now I am teaching poetry at dartmouth (for winter & spring terms) while living in union village, vermont (pop. 36). For this I have happily taken temporary leave from doctoral work in the english dept at the university of buffalo. These are just a couple of me facts. I'm bashful at introductions and hate breaking ice without a sharp tuning fork.

Hello

I just posted my text (and a literal interpretation of it) under "seven point five." Looking forward to reading yours. -bill

Oh. I suppose I should say who I am. I am the husband of Reesa. But I am also an aspiring handmaiden of human rights law. Hrm. I wish I had a business card to do this introduction for me. As Kafka said, business cards should be an ice axe to break the sea frozen inside us. Or perhaps he said literature, or bowling.

Keywords: David Koffman

By way of introduction.
Call me David Koffman.

Keywords: Toronto; Jew; History; Puzzle Peices; Keys; Corners; Commentary; Parenthomania.

Drug of Choice: Sex.

Pretense: Yes. I'd always rather try to say something important than nothing at all.

Newest Cool Phrase Learned: "the unthought known"

Connection to Reesa: From NYU to cherished friendship.

Investment in Sevenvoices: Futures. I really dig thinking about writing and writing about thinking. Writing about writing is harder but generally brings great pleasure. Thinking about thinking, well.

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Here at long last is the writing schedule for this collaborative thingamajig! The first session begins January 1st, and you have until the end of the month to post your first writings. Because of the blog format, the postings can be as short or as long as you want, can be visual or textual or some combination. The only rules are as follows:

January:pick a quote, either textual or visual, and provide a straight-forward explanation of what it means. For now, keep the source of the quotation anonymous--seems like it might make for more interesting discussion that way.

February: Write a series of questions about the quotation and its explication. Questions only!

March: Answer only February's questions.

April: Discuss some of the implications and applications of the first three sessions. Do they lead in any way out of this blog into some other part of the world?

May: Free resonse. Absolutely anything.

June: Synthesis. Tie together loose ends, come to some conlusions, provide a gestalt.

July: Writing about writing. What do you think about this project, its process?