FCF 57

What
can I
say? I mean,

literally.
What can
I say. It’s

a
good thing
I made so

many
mistakes in
the translation. How

do
we read
such lines? What

vision
of the
world do they

represent?
Just kidding.
But – and? – but

whatever.
To whom
or what are

we
responsible? “An
eternal return machine

constructed
for the
entertainment of con

structed
nonbeings who
are, sort of,

over
there.” And
when the sick

man
says “love
me, ” a cloud

crashes
into an
imaginary audience. What

depths
in the
cellars of the

odes?
Radio. iPod.
iTunes set to

shuffle.
Which leaves
us where? Taking

Amtrak
to Chicago?
O this tewwible

wowld.

And you, above this growth and flux and ru-

in, does your sleepwalker-muse fetch the let-

ter x, for instance, which is a vari-

able, in a place somewhere else, on the

last or next page, collapsed under the ef-

fort …? “You” is a gentle and good in heart

but sadly unreliable. “I” could

wash in a trough and follow the wire of

the pylons away from a town to some

graveyard where the headstones look like pummeled

dough. Little Viva lifts up the recei-

ver. X is idealised as an ob-

ject or an objectile slipped through the vow-

el, abbatoir-warm, cuddly as barest prose.

“When
all disorders
are taken into

account,
M and
W are about

equally
troubled.” Last
night I read

this
whole thing
from the beginning.

Stuplimity
indeed. A
little long on

stu,
maybe, and
short on plimity …

Sorry. Sorry. I regret it. Please accept my apology. I’m
extremely sorry. I regret my mistake. Pardon me. Pardon me.
I hope you’ll forgive me. I’m deeply apologetic. Do forgive me.
Pardon me. Accept my apology. Do forgive me. I’m
deeply apologetic. Excuse me. Excuse me. It was my own fault.
Do forgive me. I’m so sorry. …

Look
how many
pages you have

left
to read.
CONFUSION? Décor? (Where’d

that
accent come
from?) Meaning? Memory?

Body?
Space? Self?
Rhetoric? Reality? That

explains
everything. Style
= insincerity. The

object
wreaks vengeance
on the subject.

Shall
we? Why
not? “The gods,

of
course, neither
eat nor drink.

They
become sated
just by looking

at
this nectar.”
Kikakoku! Ekoralaps!

Wiso
kollipanda opolosa.
Ipasatta ih fuo.

Kikakoku
proklinthe peteh.
Nikifili mopa Lexio

intipaschi
benakaffro – proposa
pi! Propsa pi!

Jasollu
nosaressa flipsei.
Aukarotto passakrussar Kikakoku.

Nupsa
pusch? Kikakoku
buluru? Futupukke – propsa

pi!
Jaollu … “Past
the danger point,

past
the point
of any logic

and
of any
meaning, and everything

has
meaning,” H.D.
writes in Bid

Me
to Live,
our secret Adam

is
written now
in the script

of
the primal
cell. Medusa makes

me
laugh. Shadows
fall a long

way
across the
ground, mingled with

the
sun’s red
rays, which spread

out
in immense
trails. “Ah! Dreams! –

and
their archaic
remnants.” For we

had
read the
literature, the geometric

cobwebs
made from
our own entrails, …

til
the cows
came home, let

them
fall where
they may, the

cows, …
… My fangs
are plastic, your

wings
paper. What
does it matter

if
“the enemy”
is not a

generic
objet d’
art but a

referent
burnout? Yes,
rhetoric withdraws to

be
so sad.
Here comes the

hyponoia …
With our
claw it devised

identity
for the
sake of food.

[Note: A bit of poösophy for Alan Baker.

Sources; some of the texts in The Consequences of Innovation: 21st Century Poetics (ed. Craig Dworkin), unless noted otherwise. Roberto Tejada, Gift & Verdict, as quoted in Alan Gilbert, “Adding Up to Plural: The Work of Roberto Tejada”; Michael Clune, “The Poem at the End of Theory”; Kevin Davies, Lateral Argument, as quoted in Clune; Brian Kim Stefans, “Christopher Smart’s America”, “When Lilacs Last in the Door: Notes on New Poetry”, and K Silem Mohammad, in Mohammad’s “Creeping it Real: Brian Kim Stefans’ ‘Invisible Congress’ and the Notion of Community”; Michael Gottleib, “Googling Flarf”; JBR, “Autopoiesis CLXIV”; Bruce Andrews, Lip Service, as quoted in Barbara Cole, “Bruce Andrews’ Venus: Paying Lip Service to Écriture Féminine”; Sianne Ngai, “Stuplimity: Shock and Boredom in Twentieth-Century Aesthetics”; Janet Zweig, Her Recursive Apology, as quoted in Ngai; Bruce Andrews: “Proof (On John Weiners)”, “Equals What?”, in Paradise & Method; Victor Li, The Neo-Primitivist Turn: Critical Reflections on Alterity, Culture, and Modernity; Chāndogya Upanishad, as quoted in ML West, Indo-European Poetry and Myth; Paul Scheerbart, “Kikakoku”, and Steve McCaffery, as quoted in McCaffery’s Prior to Meaning: The Protosemantic and Poetics (McCaffery defines hyponoia as “the underneath sense”; online medical dictionaries define it as “a state of dulled mental activity or decrease in the function of thought” – both work for me – suit yourself); H.D., Bid Me to Live, as quoted by Robert Duncan, and Duncan himself, in “Rites of Participation”, in Symposium of the Whole (eds. Jerome Rothenberg and Diane Rothenberg); a (mis)memory of a bit from Hélène Cixous, “The Laugh of the Medusa”, quoted in Cole; Antonin Artaud, Heliogabalus, or, The Crowned Anarchist (tr. Alexis Lykiard); JBR, “Autopoiesis CLXIII”; Lisa Robertson, “Lucite”, in Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip]

Comments

[Gordana]

February 9, 2012 at 7:27 pmSpencer,Since I missed the nubmers I do need to acknowledge that I did miss the nubmers.Most of you guys have an amazing habit to lump things together and rush to conclusions without seeing the real PICTURE in your zeal of proving that you were right or smarter than others. Siri’s 2011 results and 2012 guidance is a new quality of business and a precursor of phenomenal performance in the coming years. This is something that you do not understand. Let us go back for a moment and look at what I predicted and what you predicted and WHAT is critical for the company. We also need to agree on one basic premise that very often smart guys tend to forget companies exist to MAKE MONEY rather than meet so called metrics. I hope you would agree that siri did make a great profit for the year? Siri generated approximately TEN TIMES PROFIT year over year at $427M in 2011 vs. $43M in 2010. Reported 2011 fcf was a double at $416M vs. $210M in 2010. My question for you is WHY YOU ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT THE METRIC THAT REALLY MATTERS – HIS MAJESTY PROFIT!!! Or you are an amazon-type lover where revenue comes at ANY COST and margins are at 1 or 2% of the revenue!!!Now let us compare the nubmers for 2011:Q4, 2011 Revenue – actual $784, my number over $800M, yours number $784 being virtually bull’s eye, mine -$17M miss. EBIDTA – actual $167M, my estimate $210-$220M, yours $180-$190, your miss $13M, mine $44M fcf – actual $192M, my estimate over $200M, yours $360-$375; my miss $9M, yours $24.5M. profit – actual 1 cent, my estimate 3 cents, yours – none.As you can see, I was the closest of the two of us to Mel’s most important and critical metric that he worships – fcf, where you missed almost $25M. This is the money that pays off debt, pays dividends or buys back shares.Neither do you want to talk with hope and praise about announced personalization nor on demand features. You claim that you care about siri’s future and innovation as a requirement for its healthy growth. Here is your growth, Mel showed it to you, and you are still unhappy!!!As to the 2012 guidance, I did much better in terms of what Mel announced. One number that I missed big was the sub guidance of 1.75M vs. Mel’s 1.3M. I do not believe that my expectations in terms of guidance were too bloated with the exception of subs. Reply