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Psychomimetic Notes and Stops
Alignments in Avital Ronell Crack Wars: literature addiction mania (1992) especially those of page 131 produce a mania for literature addiction or for an addiction to the mania of literature … watch as the characters from Flaubert’s novel Madame Bovary … Continue reading
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Alphabet Sentences
I found tucked into a copy of The Centaur Types by Bruce Rogers (a 1996 Perdue University Press reprint of the Chicago 1949 October House edition) a lovingly scrawled sentence to mark a page in the book devoted to one … Continue reading
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Estate Sales
We Are Still Married: stories and letters by Garrison Keillor has a piece called “Estate” which is about a stint as a writer of obituaries and a frequenter of estate sales. He speaks of an editor: But I managed to … Continue reading
Roaming Conclusions
In the final section “Conclusions” of the anthology of selections and commentary entitled Texts and Pretexts (1932) Aldous Huxley invites us to consider last thoughts Or if we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is … Continue reading
The Written Self and Writing
Two paragraphs from Sylvia Ashton-Warner Teacher presented in reverse order: You never want to say that it’s good or bad. That’s got nothing to do with it. You’ve got no right at all to criticise the content of another’s mind. … Continue reading
The Written and the Writing Self
Quentin Crisp ends The Naked Civil Servant with cheeky yet profound meditation on the sense of an ending. […] an autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing. We think we write definitively of those parts … Continue reading
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Lawn Parties
In A Good Heart and A Light Hand (1968), Ruth L. Gaskins writes about lawn parties in the introduction ‘A Negro Welcome’ These lawn parties weren’t big affairs, and I doubt whether they added much to the church treasury, but … Continue reading
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Contiguous Files
File F is located close to File G. And this closeness allows me to read these passages close together. Jane Flax. Thinking Fragments: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Postmodernism in the Contemporary West (1990) [p. 217] “In Foucault’s work the aesthetic is … Continue reading
Why Make Babies
Very gnomic. Very pixie. Such are the comments at the bottom of this attempt at a preface for a scholarly work. Didn’t quite fit (a tad polemical). Glad I kept it all these years to bring it to the fore … Continue reading
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Randomness and Reproduction
Came across a proposal from the mid 90s. The proposal is very lapidary in its prose. At this late remove, it seems too simple and yet under-explained. The proposal began thus Characterizable by certain investments, reproductive consciousness manifests a desire … Continue reading