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White on ornamentation
Edmund White The Burning Library “The Wanderer: Juan Goytisolo’s Border Crossings” Artistically he has taken the post-modernist technique of intertextuality but given it an Arabic flavor not only through quotations from Arabic and Persian writers but also through the imitation … Continue reading
Time again for more space
From Elements of Japanese Design by Boyé Lafayette De Mente on “MA Mixing Space and Time” Ma means space as well as time and refers to the space of time between events. It is space that is sensually as well … Continue reading
White on time in the novel
Edmund White The Burning Library “Southern Belles Lettres: Cormac McCarthy” Time as a resource… Since fiction, like music, is primarily a temporal art, any device that inflects the reader’s perception of time becomes crucial, not just as a hook for … Continue reading
And the moral of the story is
Finished reading His Dark Materials. It’s moving in a kind quiet way. It celebrates the everyday goodness of living a humble but engaged life. Its final emphasis is on building the Republic of Heaven in the here and now: But … Continue reading
Ghost Days Spectral Hours
Jill Walker Rettberg. Blogging To really understand blogs, you need to read them over time. Following a blog is like getting to know someone, or like watching a television series. […] A blog consists of more than words and images. … Continue reading
Spectral Hours Ghost Days
Jill Walker Rettberg. Blogging To really understand blogs, you need to read them over time. Following a blog is like getting to know someone, or like watching a television series. […] A blog consists of more than words and images. … Continue reading
Signs Signs Signs
Inspired by Words in the Wild at lexigraphi.ca here are some intriguing examples of Toronto signage and in once case graffiti. I like the name of the shop and the round gear-wheel motif of the Bikes on Wheels sign. Night … Continue reading
The Company They Keep
On the hunt for Queer Art in Public Space (Outside Galleries) in Toronto. Andy Fabo in response to a query about queer art in public spaces referenced Douglas Coupland’s Monument to the War of 1812 (2008) in Toronto, which enlarges … Continue reading
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Gratitude & Attitude
It was part of a work-related self-esteem workshop. We were asked to write down five things we are grateful for in life. I tend to resist being social-worked but once I wrote the first the others came swiftly. my lover … Continue reading
Intestinal Intertextuality
A whole chapter of Saints and Scholars by Terry Eagleton is devoted to a description of Dublin. This bit might remind you of James Joyce’s Ulysses. The Irish style of defecation would be regular and efficient, brief in duration to … Continue reading