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The pages of Kathy Acker’s Pussycat Fever have borders designed by Freddie Baer. They complement well the themes of repetition and out of the edge of awareness behaviour to be found in the prose. As the narrator says “I do … Continue reading →

Brigid Brophy writing in a forward to a book offers the image of reading Baudelaire’s Poems in Prose as being akin to “picking through a box of marvellous but unstrung beads.” The tempting rattle of marbles secures the tragedy of … Continue reading →

Brigid Brophy writes in a forward to a book: Reading the book is like saying a tragic, pagan, erotic rosary. Reading comes to voice via a garland. A long way from blossoms to beads. The images in By Grand Central … Continue reading →

Lightbulbs are intelligent signs of lie. Heat & lumens illuminate. McLuhan equated them with information. Failed to distinguish bulb from the turned on filament. And so for day 36 19.01.2007

Sidewalks dotted with the remains of chewed gum. Gum not swallowed out of ignorance of the benefits of soluble fibre. The wicked wad deserves ingestion. And so for day 35 18.01.2007

It is not a gardening manual. Still when I read it I have images of carnations sticking out of a rifle barrel. Every Communist must grasp the truth, “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” Some power … Continue reading →

In Unix-land it is invoked by “ln” for link making. In i-Apple land under Classic it is Propeller + M and under OSX it is Propeller + L, both for “make alias”. In Microsoft land, you can invoke it under … Continue reading →

There is a hint of haute etiquette in certain groupings. For instance the radicals for earth, scholar, work, jade and life resemble each other. Scholar squiggles are to castings as scholar wiggles are to aeration. Work of the earth, life … Continue reading →