• this very text isn’t supposed to be read

    absence

    ABSENCE

    In being redundant, ignored, probably even overlooked, what is the exact status of such a placeholder text?

    Is this text considered to be fake? To be mistaken for something else than a text? Thus, something else than a sequence of exact words forming sentences and suggesting meaning?

    BLANK

    blank

    Would there be something meaningful at all? At last, and in absence of words, shapes and images, wouldn’t there be just a blank space, a void? And would this very vacuum have no meaning at all? Permit yourself to drift from what you are reading at this very moment into another situation … imagine a situation that, in all likelihood, you’ve never been in.

    SCHAU, IM AUGENBLICK BIN ICH BLIND, SCHAU

    Voyez ce jeu exquis Wallon, de graphie en kit mais bref

    “There is also no one who loves, seeks or wishes pain in itself”

    substitute

    SUBSTITUTE

    VACUUM

    vacuum

    However, emphasizing this very phenomenon would urge another text, in another Futura (sic)

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