Preparing for this Nõ book i have gone through an experience. i have undergone an experience that i could not have imagined and yet didn't i know it would come to Nõ end where i am just aNõther artist thrown by fate into being a conduit for Language to speak on this never ending Nõ journey. i thought i was going to write an academic paper about Yeats and the Nõ. Now this essay is simply complex where i'm just aNõther poet writing/riding/reading on the lines of that Nõ train going Nõwhere. On the way to writing this essay i travelled through the library with semiotic ghosts throwing books off of shelves that i could barely catch nor nearly comprehend. Here i am aNõther simple minded writer weaving together pieces to tell a tale of Language becoming through us. i began with Nõthing and will end with Nõ thing. i will come to Nõ end having gone on this Nõ journey through Nõ thing to echolocate myself home word while writing on the lines over top of trees who have their own story to tell. Here on this ground and in this way, Language will go on as long as there are beings who have the ability and the passion to articulate the heart of Being.

Those who truly understand the nõ, since they grasp it with their spirit,
are able to imitate its Substance. (Zeami 71)

We communicate with our cats with touch, sight and hearing. We speak with langue but no parole being involved in transcommunication. And if our cats were to talk would they knock at our door?

"One thing was certain, the white kitten had nothing to do with it -
it was the black kittens fault entirely." (Carroll, 3)

If a Raven were to speak would it say Hello? If a student were to ask a teacher for an understanding of Being and Time and the phone line went silent for ever so long, would the silence be like a koan and convey more than words could ever tell? If the Rose were to speak would it communicate via langue or parole? Would it utter words and what would it say? It would speak of Roses and of things other than of being a Rose for it would have langue or lingusitic consciousness which necessitates a binary code ... 1 0 1 0 1 0 ... an awareness of self and other where there is signifier and signified, for being conscious is to be conscious of something (Erikson).

Would the Rose speak to us of being a Rose and of being Human?