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Bundle Magic
I have thought about the similarities of carrying a bundle and having ready-at-hand a smartphone. Both are portable and both offer access to a phenomenological experience that lifts one out of the now into a future-to-be-built-on-the-past. As Beth Cuthand says … Continue reading
Name Game Dream
A lexically-inflected oneiric moment… I had a dream about the Indigenization of the [Ontario] civil service. The Ministry of Education would be known as the Ministry of Human Development. And the Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development would be … Continue reading
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Lines, Designs, Reflections
Robbie Robertson “Unbound” Oh nothing is forgotten Only left behind And I open the CD envelope for this production doesn’t come in a jewel case. The eye traverses the space; the mind mends the breach. So like the themes of … Continue reading
Être Autre
In the days I whiled away as a would-be academic, I thought about challenging the dominant position of dyads in theorizing about communication and learnt from observing the teaching situation: Pedagogical situations are sensory. They are also interpersonal. Because they … Continue reading
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Classic Chanel
As reported by John Fairchild in The Fashionable Savages Chanel had said many times: “I love luxury and luxury lies not in the richness, or ornateness, but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. … Continue reading
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Old Novelty
Awoke from a dream with these lines in mind: To write the New English is to displace and replace. To read it is to reknit syntax. I’m glad I committed the lines to paper; easier to remember. And so for … Continue reading
Countercannon: The Threading of Names or On the Esthetic Interest of Exclusion
We need to quote at length for you to experience the rumble. A kind of countercannon of works runs parallel to the canon we traditionally think of as the literary. Often its works are ones for which a more or … Continue reading
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The Drinking Dog; The Drunk Scholar
Karin Cope. Passionate Collaborations: Learning to Live With Gertrude Stein Not to mention the dog! Yes, that’s it. In fact, I began to hear the dog because I had begun to think about writing again for myself. And to do … Continue reading
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Again A Gain
Like playing hangman. REPETITION. — It is an excellent thing to express a thing consecutively in two ways, and thus provide it with a right and a left foot. Truth can stand indeed on one leg, but with two she … Continue reading
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Setting The Pace: Pacing the Set
The opening chapter of Rebecca Solnit’s Wanderlust: A History of Walking brings the simple act of walking into the gambit of cogitation. Moving on foot seems to make it easier to move in time, the mind wanders from plans to … Continue reading