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Avery E. D. Burns
from A DuelLing Primer
Figure 1
daisen
prima mobile. the
world out there beckons. your eye. your hand. your whole
being waits with a tensile energy. slight buzzing in the
ears and about the head. the delicate jingling of fate’s
scales. fulcrum between the day and night.
Figure 1a
ones object is often to live
the spider’s bite
Figure 4
carte
a basic speaking. a
repetitive line transforming into morse code. values for letters;
values for sounds. carte. so close to carte blanche. the
clean slate. the coup de blanc passion writes on.
Figure 4a
certain elements are part of
and counted as whole
time
duration
memory
event
action
sections of thrusting blades
figure 1—a “lozenge” in shape
Figure 6
fuori sur les armes aussere line
ones thoughts move around in a
container. the milky way. a jar of flies. going along the third rail
trails fire. crayon outside the guiding mark temps hands becomes your
head. such thinking does not constitute the radical break the baroque
sought, but cool insurance along a border sight.
Figure 6a
you can tell its like water
in time, in passing
brazilian paddle blades
Figure 17
federleicht
the brushing of wings wakes a charge.
eyelash flicker. time slowed to the pulse of the moment marking the world gone
young again with a touch of light. the faint rasp of the puck along the
shuffleboard. just far enough without sailing off the horizon. the change
from periplum to heliotrope.
Figure 17a
this is the ghost hand
sounding the air characters
war cries
Figure 32
demi-volte
direct or indirect. against the
fast and straight. not, however, restricted to faulty preparation. dodge?
half-round, this empty space is your shadow self. attention to wither
wonder or focus. what is taken away and then served is also filled—the
bounding turn.
Figure 32a
passage on a strand
reeds sway in a shadow life
a german spring loaded dagger
Notes on visuals:
Fencing Plates—Thomas Rowlandson, 1783
Used as illustrations for Domenico Angelo’s book The
School of Fencing with a General Explanation of the Principal
Attitudes and Positions Peculiar to the Art, 1787
Other visuals:
The Young Folks Cyclopedia of Common Things
John Dennison Champlin 1879
The Book of the Sword
Richard F. Burton 1884
Notes on Compositon:
Action; Buy a vowel; Careen across the floor; Defend; Ecphrasis; Face
one’s . . . ; Get into another’s head;
Hot to move the goods; Into the outside; Jump cut; Kant, illusion of
authority; Light through the mask; Musics of metal; No; On; Pretend
your wing hurts; Quest of singularity; Repetition; Sinewousness sic;
Telegraph, typewriter, tango, torque; Unfold a timeline’s timeline;
Vertical and horizontal thinking; Whisk; X of blades; Yells; Zorro?
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