<p class="raleway">{(live: 0.5s)[(set: $title to (array: "over-", ""))\ (if: $test is 0)[(if: $titlex is 0) [a joy is [(display: "title")]working the body] (if: $titlex is 1) [a joy is working the body]] (if: $test is 1)[a joy is over-working the body] ]}</p>\ (live: 0.5s)[ (stop:) a joy is (cycling-link: "working", "revising, like this,", "the calling forth\nthe presentment of") the body past what it would have you. or the choice to. or to sit (cycling-link: "in silence", "as if in prayer. though what\nis it to ask of god what you are fully capable\nof doing for yourself, whether here, now,\nor there,", " tongue tense as a fist as you sit") on an outcrop of the mountain resting from having made fools (cycling-link: "of the cables\nand networks that make you", "of your earlier minds—\nfor example: what was it you had wanted just this morning?—", "of your critics—\nyour Heart, your Conscience, your Thought\nof being good, good somehow—") and convincing your heart to be (cycling-link: "a muscle\nthat knows its name,", "just, which is a clarion,\nof kinds, against an embodied silence", "\na worthwhile gesture") like a student who finally speaks up in class and makes everyone (cycling-link: "listen.", "stop.", "listen(!)") and you eat a palm of raw almonds, or a (cycling-link: "clementine", "clementine, two"), and you say almost nothing to ensure (cycling-link: "the air", "this imagining (if that's what it is)", "witness \nbecomes memory—it will be that, after all, \nmuch longer than it is taking you now to make it \nevidentiary. directly, you do all you can\nto ensure your best remembering—you will that it") stays right, and you let the (cycling-link: "sweat", "sweat testify and") drift off of you into (cycling-link: "the sky", "the blue whatever", "god's mouth \n(yours)") and with the back of your hand you scrape the salt that is the (cycling-link: "better\npart of you. you love that you won't hold it \nany longer from its place. or that isn't quite right. \n it's that you're free from it. you have your thirst \nto replace it. a space on the horizon \nin your eye. you cannot, it seems,", "the most ordinary \nmineral on earth. little seasoning, faithful \npreserver of undeserving things, my glittering \nlittle white chandelier of forgetfulness: how \nhave you gotten me here, you \nwho anchors me and marks the paths \nin my brain and how you are like a stray cat that finds \nyour way into every small space and what a wonder it is that you are in every light house and so you \ncannot stray far enough to not", "message\n(the medium, McLuhan said)—you are both—you") contain oceans and not only can you sail but you (set: $choices to (array: "have. already", "can do it completely here, <br>in this body that surrounds the mind, the way your hands might <br>hold, if they could, a dove: ready? ready. go", "can choose not to—<br>you can sit like this and think of anything, <br>however inconsequential or maximalist or absurd—<br>one day you will die—maybe here, <br>like this, before the world, or maybe <br>in some other way. you place your hands variously <br>about your body imagining. you cannot decide <br>if deciding can ever be a certainty <br>or, otherwise, if it can ever really be a guess"))[(display: "Cycling")]<choice| ] { (link: (text: $title's 1st) )[ (set: $titlex to 1) (replace: ?choice)[(display: "Cycling")] ] }{ (link: (text: $choices's 1st) )[ (set: $choices to (rotated: -1, ...$choices)) (set: $test to 1) (replace: ?choice)[(display: "Cycling")] ] }