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I have come across pieces of a project conceived back in 1997. It is no doubt inspired by the Quilt (the NAMES Project) and by the title of a line of poetry, “These waves of dying friends” from Michael Lynch. … Continue reading →

R.D. Laing in the first chapter “Phantasy and Experience” in the collection of essays Self and Other takes up the 1952 work of Susan Isaacs “The nature and function of Phantasy”. Aside from whatever critique Laing mounts there is a … Continue reading →

My copy of The Normal Heart by Larry Krammer came to me second hand and with it came a message from a previous reader. One single page in the whole of the book has been marked with a fold down … Continue reading →

Philip K. Dick Ubik (New York: Vintage Books 1969 reprint 1991 page 132) has a particular take on Plato But why hadn’t the TV set reverted instead to formless metals and plastics? those, after all, were its constituents; it had … Continue reading →

Here is a wonderful passage about the value of practice and about the care of craft. Hermione to Harry in “The Wandmaker” chapter of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Oh yes, if you are any wizard at all you … Continue reading →

Jochen Schulte-Sasse “Afterward” to Jay Caplan. Framed Narratives: Diderot’s Geneology of the Beholder. The mechanical arts in particlar [sic] were soon to be excluded from the realm of the so-called beautiful arts because their skills turned out to be commercially … Continue reading →

Geoffrey O’Brien. The Browser’s Ecstasy: A Meditation on Reading. He measures his life by sentences and chapters. He comes to feel that just as any moment of life contains the whole of it, any of these books is the whole … Continue reading →

Kevin Connolly Happyland. The title poem in this collection is a set of nine parts is about the East Tremont fires in New York and one of the pieces recalls Triangle Shirtwaist fire that happened “79 years to the day” … Continue reading →