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Svend Brinkmann: seek to create a cultural ecology with aesthetically appealing rituals that allow for an ethically based form of life. (The Joy of Missing Out: The Art of Self-Restraint in an Age of Excess). And so for day 2837 … Continue reading →

From the text that accompanies Ours, a browser-based work by Samuel Marion Buying a product as a way to support a cause is a much easier way to scratch the “guilt-itch” than by supporting any sort of political action, with … Continue reading →

Beth Chatto Woodland Garden: Shade-loving Plants for Year-round Interest I like the analogy between people and plants in the opening paragraph of the introduction: Most people have some shade in their garden; it may be dry and dusty, or dark … Continue reading →

From Michael Enright, host of CBC Sunday Edition Canadians are a winter people and we know the indifference of nature — Michael’s essay From time to time, I am roundly criticized by listeners for using the phrase, “all the news … Continue reading →

Our eyeballs spotted this graffito repeatedly, on benches, on windows, on walls, in parks and allies… A signature? A message about the state of the world? And so for day 2829 10.09.2014

London Review of Books Vol. 3 No. 9 · 21 May 1981 “Sexuality and Solitude” Michel Foucault and Richard Sennett Let me now say something about what the word ‘solitude’ means. We know three solitudes in society. We know a … Continue reading →

At 5:20 minutes … I’m not interested in an insurance plan for my work. Leonard Cohen in an interview with Adrienne Clarkson 1966 And so for day 2826 07.09.2014

forever open to semiosis the all-but-infinite array of potential explanations, illustrations, associations, glosses and exempla, even stories, that may be said to lie not only behind any verbal formulation but also behind any real-world image, scene, action, interaction. Enough said? … Continue reading →

Bernard Dieterle and Manfred Engel write in the preface to Writing the Dream Écrire le rêve Comparing the literaricized dream-report with the empirical one shows the workings of two different concepts of factual dream-notation: whereas the latter tries to remain … Continue reading →

Richard Hughes A High Wind in Jamaica (1929) So much for Rachel. The inside of Laura was different indeed: something vast, complicated, and nebulous that can hardly be put into language. To take a metaphor from tadpoles, though legs were … Continue reading →