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Subduing the Imperatives

Posted on June 23, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Comparing what I heard with what I read, I became aware of two versions of the song. A snippet for comparison… Melanie Version There’s no time to lose I heard her say You gotta catch your dreams before they run … Continue reading →

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Close-up on the Chocolate

Posted on June 22, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Wallace Edwards Alphabeasts Truly captivating images of animals in action and simple verse that complements the images well. From which I have collected these bonbons… There are also brushes dripping with paint that get repeated and fruit too. And so … Continue reading →

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Accepting Ursula’s Point of View

Posted on June 21, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Partition by way of modality… I don’t believe in Darwin’s theory of evolution, I accept it. It isn’t a matter of faith, but of evidence. The whole undertaking of science is to deal, as well as it can, with reality. … Continue reading →

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The View from the Theatre Box

Posted on June 20, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Vantages… In the space between meaninglessness of the present and the unknowable past is the entertainment of history. The artifice of history’s words is to give historians, whoever they are – gossips, priests, academics – control over the past in … Continue reading →

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There

Posted on June 17, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Northrop Frye By Liberal Things His address upon his installation as Principal of Victoria College, 1959 The university is not merely the group of institutions called universities, any more than the Church is merely the group of buildings called churches. … Continue reading →

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Levity Amongst the Layers

Posted on June 16, 2013 by Francois Lachance

I have been trawling through the literature on overlapping hierarchies and have repeatedly come across puns and other forms of humour. One of the outstanding examples comes from Steve deRose. This model, originally named HORSE (Hierarchy-Obfuscating Really Spiffy Encoding) may … Continue reading →

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Disappearing Appearance

Posted on June 11, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Untangling the myth from the fact to make a greater statement about not peering: An ostrich does not bury its head in the sand; it lays its neck flat to the ground so as to appear from a distance like … Continue reading →

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Seating and Setting

Posted on June 10, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Jeremiah Tower Table Manners: How to Behave in the Modern World and Why Bother SEATING PLAN: The arrangements should make well-mannered sparks. You don’t have to invite couples and if you do, you don’t have to seat them next to … Continue reading →

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Fiction Is No Firewall

Posted on June 9, 2013 by Francois Lachance

If you have been reading to stay sane, think again. And so we were strengthened, because belief, for beings like us, is the colostrum of existence. After Saachi left, the Ada sank even more into her books, by instinct, separating … Continue reading →

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Three More Minute Pauses

Posted on June 6, 2013 by Francois Lachance

Three more aphorisms lifted from their embedding in surreal non sequiturs. Greg Evason The Red Blind Toronto: The Pink Dog Press, 1991 Swearing is justifiable when you are a walking dictionary. […] A word like prostitution can confuse a lot … Continue reading →

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