The poet sometimes resorts to radical half-measures (like the removal of the prefix 'con-') to make things consistent. Scission is not murder but a sort of simple division (like Grumman's 'Mathemaku No. 10'), language always divided by a user-reader & resulting in a significant poetical remainder. After all, what do you call the heart quotient in a Grumman poem? Churchill's famous "end of the beginning" phrase (at war's end) is another case in point. I guess it operates by the same principle of slotting surprises into the commonplace and seeing what you get: a case of wilful insertion (or, as in this case, scission) that language always opts for, if given a chance. I think Grumman's heart or Huth's taminate are both unforeseen products that couldn't have been expressed better.
Maybe the pwoermd taminate (produced by scission), the mathemaku (produced by division) are dangerous nomads (after Deleuze). Significant literary forms that happen when you're not looking, an attack by night. Since traditional "page-based" ways of describing them seem outmoded already, we could even call them hyperlexical items. Is there a hidden 'code' at work that makes the mathemaku, pwoermd "interface texts"?The pwoermd is now (after Grummnan & Churchill) an uncontaminated product of superartful division: Grumman's mathemaku being no more reducible to a simple 'visual heart' times 'poetry' rule than, say, the pwoermd to simple act of cutting. And yet they obviously are remainders of a sort, vital and active products of poetical imaginations not afraid to transgress material boundaries, both enjoying (in Grumman's words) "a widening/existence".
A "dissolution and resolution".
Used in a sentence: Taminate the springs before you drink deep.
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