From Ruud Janssen and Thom Courcelle

[cheryl penn]

I received mail from Thom Courcelle and Ruud  Janssen in the same week. They seem tied together in some way – so Thom – your work has informed the meaning I have ascribed to Ruud’s new FLUXUS word.

 ZAPIL:

Time is short, soon there will be ZALOP of it left.  Use every minute wisely – its an un-renewable resource.

 Thank you for the accompanying note and wishes – Ruud – the same to you too – ALL the best for 2012 – many thanks again for the IUOMA platform and the opportunity to extend your FLUXUS Word Score.

 First from Thom – made the day after Xmas – and here we are at the end of January already – EEEEK!!! Thank you for another red ribbon. Your masks are fascinating – how we act behind them, or the persona we employ when our real faces are hidden in the Ether – that’s a topic for another day?

Note with Thom's next work: - further thoughts are superfluous... 

For some time I thought there was time

and that there would always be time

for what I had a mind to do

and what I would imagine

going back to and finishing it

as I had found it the first time

but by this time I do not know

what I thought when I thought back then

there is no time yet it grows less...

- W.W. Merwin

Thom says he knits these all by himself. No elves were involved or harmed in their manufacture.

The Gotij Manifesto:

Words from an old hymn ring in my ears

Time like an ever rolling stream

Bears all its sons away

They fly forgotten as a dream

Dies at the opening day

Thank you Thom and Ruud.

[Marie Wintzer]

Cheryl! Great stuff! (not because I'm there too, but yeeeey) :-)))

(DVS, that was a month before the earthquake, I couldn't find a better excuse)

[cheryl penn]

[De Villo Sloan]

I think you were fleeing Tokyo from the nuclear disaster.

[Marie Wintzer]

:-)))) it looked familiar but not quite. Where was I February 16 of 2011?? probably busy pairing my socks again. I'll go check out that blog!

[De Villo Sloan]

Marie, you haven't seen the charts - or don't remember? You should read your friends' blog postings!

http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profiles/blogs/received-mailart-inter...

[cheryl penn]

William Blake wrote:

"I have heard many People say, 'Give me the Ideas. It is no matter what Words you put them into.'"
To this he replies, "Ideas cannot be Given but in their minutely Appropriate Words."

[cheryl penn]

I SO hope these are going to be mailed??? Or at least copies thereof? The tomato war? Or should I leave that in the realms of imagination? GREAT Ruud :-) X!

[Marie Wintzer]

Oh and it's getting better and better!! :-o

[Ruud Janssen]

[Ruud Janssen]