Something I'm thinking about

Edison's phonograph as literal way of "writing" speech. The indentations on the tinfoil are an indexical mark of speech, something writing could never have been, no matter how much people wanted it to be. And yet these tinfoil pieces are illegible but inherently not arbitrary. [asemic writing comes to mind as something that may look similar to these indexical indentations, although coming at it from the opposite angle as when, for example, Cris Cheek reading the other night at KWH for Bob Cobbing's celebration]

hmmmm....