Optimistic archipelago
And so, MS artist, unwilling or unable to face or even recognize your declining powers, running on sheer artistic impulse and free association, what kind of art form do you invent? You rely upon the collective good will, generosity and innate habits of the nervous system, of other people's nervous systems, to supply the missing sense, the ms. Leaps between hopeful islands of sense, linked in no certain order, an archipelago enabled on code. How many angels dancing on the head of a pin? To what music?
The discontinuity in your own expression, your failing, your failing cognition, becomes a virtue in the eyes of others through hypertext. What hybris ... say a prayer, you hebrewgreek: Motzeh chen b'eynechem. Let me find favor in their eyes. Through a pathological form. A viral, or the consequence of a viral, form. Or more specifically through the form induced by a pathology in turn induced by the autoimmune response to a viral infection, a body attacking itself with its own best weapon.
These pages and blanks and jumps across no-space. These blank pages, filled with missing vowels.