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On Music’s Power

Posted on May 3, 2007 by Francois Lachance

From Syncope by Catherine Clement as translated by Sally O’Driscoll and Deidre M. Mahoney By forcing the limits of the self, music follows the rhythm of the creative act as Anton Ehrensweig understood it so well. It contradicts the visceral … Continue reading →

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Union of Intersections

Posted on May 1, 2007 by Francois Lachance

Robert Scholes’s opening sentence to “Afterthoughts on Narrative” from Critical Inquiry autumn 1980 is worth working through again on a May Day and any day: Narrative is a place where sequence and language, among other things intersect to form a … Continue reading →

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Triplets and Beyond

Posted on April 30, 2007 by Francois Lachance

Such good prose! Susan Stewart from the first chapter of On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection draws the reader in to a debunking of authenticity and speech: The utilitarian vision of an ordinary language … Continue reading →

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Mut

Posted on April 25, 2007 by Francois Lachance

courage at the edge of a mouth with pluck an elusive inwardness behind the glowing screen which has a drawing power similar to a husky or sultry voice surmised Stephanie Strickland in a talk given in 1997 about work in … Continue reading →

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Jumping

Posted on April 24, 2007 by Francois Lachance

It’s about tumbling, tuck and roll. Dawdling actually, duck walking. A hugging of the ground downhill like a log on the loose. A piercing view of the sky from hanging upside down from a limb. And the spinning and the … Continue reading →

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Fishing

Posted on April 22, 2007 by Francois Lachance

“cutlure” first word in column three of page 7 of The Globe and Mail of Monday September 7, 1973 in an article with a Marshall McLuhan by-line entitled “Understanding McLuhan — and fie on any who don’t” cut lure for … Continue reading →

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Exemplifications

Posted on April 21, 2007 by Francois Lachance

H.D. in The Wise Sappho mentions the “tortured and torturing sea”. A befitting description of any writing encounter with language where the voice becomes shaped like driftwood that snags upon the mind. And so for day 128 21.04.2007

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Yes to “No” when there is no “Yes”

Posted on April 20, 2007 by Francois Lachance

In Frogs into Princes: neurolinguistic programming TM Richard Bandler and John Grinder suggest that in certain practices a minimum of three options are necessary to operate out of choice. It is suggested that operating with only one way is robot … Continue reading →

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To Verb

Posted on April 18, 2007 by Francois Lachance

Hovering over lines from Rene Ricard from in an INANOUT Press publication patching over a passel of bad dreams with a phrase aptly broken Every night. At the age of Seven I learned how to fly. and pasting in the … Continue reading →

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Framing

Posted on April 16, 2007 by Francois Lachance

Tony Peake in the biography of Derek Jarman on the filming of The Tempest The lighting was kept as low as possible, the camera as static, so that not only would the action seem to emerge, dreamlike, from the shadows, … Continue reading →

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