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Hate, really?

Posted on July 11, 2007 by Francois Lachance

February 2007 The Walrus Kay Armatage “Gertrude Stein’s Radical Grammar” The publishers do a disservice to the argument and the facts put forth by asserting in the table of contents that the article is about “Why Gertrude Stein hated commas”. … Continue reading →

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Recollecting collections

Posted on July 10, 2007 by Francois Lachance

R. Rawdon Wilson, In Palamedes’ Shadow: Explorations in Play, Game, and Narrative Theory (1990) p. 168 Indeed, to understand one such collection may make the others tenuous: their boundaries, to use one of Derrida’s images, may begin to tremble. The … Continue reading →

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Just a Job

Posted on July 9, 2007 by Francois Lachance

A brief passage from Pat Cadigan Tea from an Empty Cup (1998) offers a view of game environments and their attractions. The guitar-player smiled. “What you want is simple. All you had to do was state it in the proper … Continue reading →

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Sinuous Sentence

Posted on July 7, 2007 by Francois Lachance

Patricia Meyer Spacks from Boredom Examining them [literary and cultural works] under the rubric of boredom reveals surprising connections among them and uncovers unpredictable animating energies. A story of research and discovery is recapitulated in those unpredictable animating energies uncovered. … Continue reading →

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Flowers, an economy of legacies

Posted on July 7, 2007 by Francois Lachance

Julia Kristeva in The Samurai translated by Barbara Bray rewards the reader who remembers to note the flowers. Observe first the father-in-law of a character named Olga: Jean de Montlaur loved gardening after Gérard had done the heavy work: trimming … Continue reading →

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Positions

Posted on July 6, 2007 by Francois Lachance

A character created by Julia Kristeva in The Samurai translated by Barbara Bray takes a look at some fascinating people: Olga put the camera down and looked at them affectionately. These feverish intellectuals were infectious. They were restless. Accelerated particles. … Continue reading →

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Imagination au pouvoir; pouvoirs d’imagination

Posted on July 5, 2007 by Francois Lachance

—<–@ Abbie Hoffman, Woodstock Nation: A talk-rock album “Thorns of the Flower Children” begins thus: Once upon a time, about a generation ago, right after the thirteen-thousand-seven-hundred-and-sixty-fourth demonstration against the war in Vietnam, young people started to congregate in an … Continue reading →

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Readers, Intergenerational

Posted on July 3, 2007 by Francois Lachance

A photograph by Sidney Weaver adorns the back dust jacket of 1968 Citadel publication of Secrets of the British Museum by Peter Fryer (originally published as Private Case — Public Scandal 1966) It is a touching photograph which given the … Continue reading →

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Broken Circles, Scattered Pearls

Posted on July 1, 2007 by Francois Lachance

A passage from Edmund Gosse on Swinburne’s compositional technique offers some alternative vocabulary to the nodes and webs of hypertext. From Aspects and Impressions It may be observed that Dolores is a rosary of stanza-beads on an invisible string; in … Continue reading →

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Zest for Zen

Posted on June 30, 2007 by Francois Lachance

Mikhail Bulgakov The Master and Margarita translated by Diana Burgin and Katherine Tiernan O’Connor provides a most marvellous set of casuistic teasers. Despite the theater manager’s promise to Azazello never to lie again, he began with a lie. Although one … Continue reading →

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