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Sneeze Response

Posted on October 16, 2008 by Francois Lachance

Louis Zukofsky honours the atheist’s heart with a poem entitled “To Friends, for Good Health” collected in selected poems edited by Charles Bernstein. There is a wonderful play between “best” and “blest”. It reads “And the / best / To … Continue reading →

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Together Alone

Posted on October 13, 2008 by Francois Lachance

John Bayley in his memoir about life with Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris, provides remarks on “the best part of love and marriage” and exemplifies for us the kind appreciation for the partner’s distinction that is a hallmark of affection. … Continue reading →

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Proportions and Centuries

Posted on October 12, 2008 by Francois Lachance

From an email signature block in use in 2001 20th : Machine Age :: 21st : Era of Reparation Long views help us act locally; global perspectives help us act again and again. And so for day 669 12.10.2008

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Liminal Delight

Posted on October 8, 2008 by Francois Lachance

Sutherland, the voice of the aesthetic arbitrator, in Andrew Holleran’s Dancer from the Dance reminds me at times in some of his baroque formulations of the passage in Edmund White’s Forgetting Elena about the possible permutations of the pronunciations of … Continue reading →

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Lovely Ending

Posted on October 7, 2008 by Francois Lachance

Last sentences from The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery translated by Alison Anderson. Because from now on, for you, I’ll be searching for those moments of always within never. Beauty, in this world. Given the earlier remarks in … Continue reading →

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Retracing Sequence and Series

Posted on October 6, 2008 by Francois Lachance

From “Cartouches” the 11 December 1977 entry (p. 215) in Derrida’s The Truth in Painting translated by Geoff Bennington and Ian McLeod. Retrace one’s steps, always, again, narrative/series [récit/série]. I am grateful to the translators for recording the assonance that … Continue reading →

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Belonging and Place

Posted on October 2, 2008 by Francois Lachance

Visual artist, Guillermo Gòmez-Peña writes in “Documented/Undocumented” (The Graywolf Annual Five: Multi-Cultural Literacy [1988]) about displaced Latin Americans: Our generation belongs to the world’s biggest floating population: the weary travelers, the dislocated, those of us who left because we didn’t … Continue reading →

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Space and Transformations

Posted on September 25, 2008 by Francois Lachance

Leonard Mlodinow in Euclid’s Window provides this insightful take on location and access to it via both geometry and algebra. There is more to location than naming a spot […] The real power of a theory of location resides in … Continue reading →

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Solidarity and Dreamtime

Posted on September 24, 2008 by Francois Lachance

The intersubjective recounting of experience, especially experiences from the realm of the sub-conscious, forms strong bonds. Because we had had the same dream, Pussycat and I agreed that we were now each other’s friend. from Kathy Acker Pussycat Fever. What … Continue reading →

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On Rockwell on Dialogue

Posted on September 22, 2008 by Francois Lachance

Some notes triggered by Geoffrey Rockwell’s A Unity of Voices: A Definition of Philosophical Dialogue The successful dialogue, the one that teaches, is judged to be the one that brings the reader close to identifying with the humiliated (the respondent) … Continue reading →

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