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26 April 2005: Yesterday's entry had an ad hoc term that I've decided is worth keeping: "intrasyllabreak," pronounced, in truh sih LAH break. Then this morning, I was thinking about Cummings's dispersal of text. "Floating text." That led to the more specific "floating texteme," a "texteme" being a textual unit smaller than a syllable which consists of one or more joining letters. Cummings set words adrift, and syllables, but his most daring innovation in this line was setting fragments of syllables, and even joined parts of two separate syllables, adrift. Geof and many others have followed him in doing this. Just one instance is Geof's use of a floating texteme in "on e seasand" in "viviD."
Naturally, I don't know of any word that means what my "texteme" does. I wonder if there is one. It should be clear from my entry of yesterday how useful such a word could be. I can speak of Cummings and those doing similar poems as poets of textemes as well as of words. Of repeating textemes as much as of repeating sounds.
By the way, I meant to to remark of Geof's "playce." Great word I assumed I'd mentioned in my Experioddicist piece but now find I did not. The beach, sand, as a place of play fits so prefectly into the seen. . . .
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