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Delicate Declining
Getting turned down in literary fashion… At Andrebrook Alice at last found a friend who shared her intellectual and artistic passions. She and Janet sometimes stayed up all night together, talking and painting. One night they got illicitly drunk and … Continue reading
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Marlene Creates
She lives up to her name. I am simply entranced by the description of one work. You get the feel of it. Text from the Signs of Our Times exhibition catalogue, 2005. The exhibition was a retrospective traveling show of … Continue reading
North Never Lost
Robert Kroetsch in “The Canadian Writer and the American Literary Tradition” collected in The Lovely Treachery of Words: Essays Selected and New makes the case for a pervasive and flexible idea of north. This silence — this impulse towards the … Continue reading
Service
Propaganda of sorts. Projection in the labour force dynamics of the future. But is was still good work. A man wasn’t a Luddite because he worked for people instead of abstractions. The green technologies demanded more intelligence, more reason, more … Continue reading
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Annotating Double Takes
Natty Bumppo is a name I first encountered in John Bruner’s The Shockwave Rider where a very intelligent dog is so named. That dog at one point encounters a mountain lion named Bagheera whose name I recognized from Rudyard Kipling’s … Continue reading
Hugo on Voltaire and in passing on Christ
I had somehow come to know of the shortest verse in the Bible. It is only much much later that I have learnt of the rejoinder. The shortest verse in the King James Version of the Bible is only two … Continue reading
urban cubes
Approaching Montreal from the Maritimes, the speaker of “from the ocean, inland” in Matt Robinson’s A Ruckus of Awkward Stacking reminds me of Frye encountering the contours of Quebec City. on approach montreal is a spilt pallet of cardboard boxes, … Continue reading
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On Sharing
The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples built its report around four principles: Recognition, Respect, Sharing and Responsibility. https://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1307458586498/1307458751962 The description of “sharing” harkens to discussions of sustainability and good stewardship. During the nineteenth century, the prevailing viewpoint held that relations … Continue reading
Embedded Interactivity
The encyclopedia entry (Americana, Canadian Edition 1960) contains its own how to instructions. How to build a table to illustrate seasons and months. Revolutionary Calendar, a calendar adopted during the French Reign of Terror. It was decreed on Nov. 24, … Continue reading
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Beyond the Light Pollution
D.G. Jones gave us stars by fire Li Bai (Li Po) gives us stars by water. In sunshine, Censer Peak breathes purple mist. A jutting stream, the cataract hangs in spray Far off, then plunges down three thousand feet — … Continue reading
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