BREATHIN' MY NAME WITH A SIGH
Fred Wah
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PREFACE
Deep Purple. 1939. This is a book of remembering. I am trying to clarify
what the language carries for me, the ontogeny. Somehow a selection of
the information of a life is made and placed in such a way as to not only
make note of it but also to allow it to generate a truth otherwise impossible
to locate. But the book is a “draft,” since each incision (the
beachwood, bookwood, and so runes, etc.) changes the whole thing it is
a part of. To select out of a pattern of things having to do with any
of it has to do with all of it. One of my teachers told me “ontogeny
recapitulates phylogeny” and that makes more sense to me now.
I want to thank Karl Siegler and bpNichol for helping with some of the
clarification.
Fred Wah
July, 1981
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