Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Foreign Tongue

My French is terrible. Non. It's non-existent. Oui (pronounced with a wee bit of the "way").

It's like a - foreign language.

But foreign to who?

Vous?

Moi?

I understand spam better than I understand French. Par exemple:

Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 12:51:01 +0400
From: William Burroughs
To: artist@markamerika.com
Subject: rectilinear

Perdue,$

_95%0ff for

all-V _i- a- g_r a ; __
C-i a- -l- is , &
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http://fihvbu.kjhsdj.info/?OnkBQPOlTSp6uOOumsrp

khmer,to the procurator,scuffle,on the ground,
breeches,white shirt dark,belch,tverskaya in nothing.
protoplasmic,and what does,resume,reason at all!,





VoilĂ !

Artaud (not pronounced "are toad"):
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

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