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Notes on Improvisation
Entry from a 1996 notebook recording a conversation with Craig Squires. Risks of Improvisation know people well danger of falling into old habits when you don’t know the people well you can’t “hear” because you don’t know their vocabulary for people you … Continue reading
The Maternal is not One
A boy body (not subject to reproduction) runs through the blogmire attentive to the rustling ruptures: She is now famous for the distinction between what she calls the “semiotic” and the “symbolic,” which she develops in her early work including … Continue reading
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Locution Locution Locution
M.A. Screech in his book on Erasmus, Ecstasy and the Praise of Folly, provides this intriguing look into the tradition of a playful expression: The soul of Paul, says Erasmus, in gloss on II Corinthians 5:13, like the anima of … Continue reading
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Principles and Stories
The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples advanced four principles for engaging in meaningful relationship building. They are: Recognition, Respect, Sharing and Responsibility. They are presented in that order. I believe that the order matters. A relationship progresses through these stages. … Continue reading
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Within and Between
Justice Bastarache wrote in the Supreme Court of Canada decision in M. v. H. (1999) https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/1702/index.do It would be consistent with Charter values of equality and inclusion to treat all members in a family relationship equally and all types of … Continue reading
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Ravages
Simon Schama in a September issue of The New Yorker (2003) writes about sculptor Andy Goldsworthy: “Sometimes misread as a placid pastoralist, Goldsworthy is in fact a dramaturge of nature’s temper, often fickle, often foul.” Schama references a documentary film … Continue reading
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Theatre, Picture, Word
There is mystery. Wendell Piez reminds the TEI [Text Encoding Initiative] gang in a posting of July 31, 2006: There may actually be a hidden lesson here, Martin, especially in view of the last exchange on editing software. You recall … Continue reading
Craft, Value and Economy
Wendell Berry in an essay entitled “Preserving Wildness” collected in Home Economics makes the case for what may be called an economy of attentiveness (as opposed to an economy of mere attention). The good worker loves the board before it … Continue reading
Thicker Than Blood
A.S. Byatt in a fiction piece in an October issue of The New Yorker writes about a female character metamorphosed into a stone woman: That evening she understood that she might be wrong about her immediate fate […] the bread … Continue reading
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Of endings.
From Andrew Holleran’s 1983 novel Nights in Aruba, from its concluding pages … our rather listless hero is looking for conclusion if not closure. I no longer believed when I awoke in the morning that I could, by lying still … Continue reading