From: “Orion J. Cervio, Esquire” <hyperradical@…>
Date: Sun Feb 6, 2005 3:46:34 AM US/Pacific
To: “submission@sedition.com” <submission@sedition.com>
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Subject: visitations and whatnot....


i never knew submission would be such an intricate trial. usually one’s neck is placed under the boot and that’s it - but finding this link has been more exacting, more humiliating. i congratulate you. no one will write into sedition who hasn’t suffered.... meanwhile, i just wrote and lost a long letter detailing my decade of decomposition…the four days of beautiful lunacy in zambia, the psychiatric wards, the comedy of being very nearly thrown out of the university of london.... i’m in the burrough of islington as spacetime hurls this machine and me along. the bricks are weary and dickensian as ever - the english sky looks like a cancerous lung preserved in brine.... i have a short story i’d like to submit.... mainly i just wanted to say hello (as inane a greeting as it is, especially after some seven years. i wanted to tell you that your days of exile are finished…whether you like it or not.... pity i lost the first magnificent letter to the wiles of this blinkering cyclops. it was very nearly a literary work. very articulate. i sang out praises for your radical departure into fatherhood. man! that’s no small thing!

now i have to go read another article on habermas’ conflation of understanding and agreement in ideal speech conditions. it’s a cognitive revolution, i can tell you - really incendiary stuff. i half-wish i had been thrown out of this place a week ago… but diplomacy and the idea that i would owe the federal government 20 large without having a little certificate for my indebtedness kept me rooted.... kafka called it the brute course of life....

you and me, boy!