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Unlocatable

Posted on July 3, 2008 by Francois Lachance

I’ve come across a bibliography of works published by the French Department at the University of Toronto. I am interested in the following item: Patte, Daniel. Organisation sémantique et narrativité. 1978-7[9?]. No sign of it in the university’s library catalogue. … Continue reading →

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Streaming Off Screen

Posted on June 28, 2008 by Francois Lachance

On a Dusty Shelf in the Library at LambdaMOO I took and read A glimmering of sunlight, a candle in the rain, Just enjoy my company, I don’t want to give you pain. Like alfvar or faerie, I have no … Continue reading →

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Russian Signals

Posted on June 27, 2008 by Francois Lachance

Allen S. Weiss Phantasmic Radio has in the preface this fine set of enumerations: There is no single entity that constitutes “radio”; rather, there exits a multitude of radios. Radiophony is a heterogeneous domain, on the levels of its apparatus, … Continue reading →

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Emoting, Experiencing, Describing

Posted on June 26, 2008 by Francois Lachance

Alain de Botton How Proust Can Change Your Life Chapter 5 “How to Express Your Emotions” on clichés The problem with clichés is not that they contain false ideas, but rather that they are superficial articulations of very good ones. … Continue reading →

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Bonds and Bindings

Posted on June 19, 2008 by Francois Lachance

Totally lifted out of context to sharpen the image of being bound: My own feeling is that as we interact with any artifact, any device, we become bound to it. Mark Pesce, co-creator of VRML, in an interview Meme 2.14 … Continue reading →

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Mailboxes

Posted on June 17, 2008 by Francois Lachance

Andrew Holleran’s narrator in The Beauty of Men finds himself waiting behind a school bus and musing He regards the school bus now with a certain awe — even if he knows it’s filled with bullies and brats trying to … Continue reading →

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Neighbouring Vitality

Posted on June 16, 2008 by Francois Lachance

There is this novel written in the genre of memoir. What I like about the narrator’s voice is that he presents as a person who is beloved — surrounded by people who care about him. He is rarely describes moments … Continue reading →

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Generous Spirit

Posted on June 15, 2008 by Francois Lachance

I have always been struck by the border between generous comment and irony. Take for example, Northrop Frye in a lecture on Oswald Spengler for CBC radio in the series Architects of Modern Thought Spengler’s book [The Decline of the … Continue reading →

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From the Little Red Book

Posted on June 12, 2008 by Francois Lachance

On your own but not alone… Each of us, grown-ups and young people, often get so overwhelmed with our own problems that we often think we’re alone, that no one wants to help or even cares. It’s important to remember … Continue reading →

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Semantic Field: schema, figura, habitus

Posted on June 11, 2008 by Francois Lachance

M.A. Screech Ecstasy and the Praise of Folly In the Annotations on the New Testament he [Erasmus] points out that the original Greek word, schema, may be translated by habitus (state, condition) or by figura (fashion, structure). I find this … Continue reading →

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