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Strident Limpet 1998 Style
Doug Guildford … between natural and cultural preoccupations … Doug Guildford splits his time between his studios in downtown Toronto and on the South Shore of Nova Scotia. His practice is rooted in drawing, entrenched in print making and allows … Continue reading
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Mourning Impossibility
Sean Gaston. The Impossible Mourning of Jacques Derrida That is what “literature” and the study of literature (which is so often working with the dead) does: as soon as I repeat a story or a narrative, as soon as I … Continue reading
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Of Books and Dimensions
Spotted this on our street. Rather fanciful to think that this particular TARDIS is indeed bigger on the inside thanks to the imaginative realms opened up by the books it houses and circulates. I have almost begun a collection of … Continue reading
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Routes to Artistic Perfection: To Question, To Philosophize
In the essay on Winckelmann, he writes Again, it is easy to indulge the commonplace metaphysical instinct. But a taste for metaphysics may be one of those things which we must renounce, if we mean to mould our lives to … Continue reading
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Invitation to Invention
Fabricate. Create complex security questions: “If you have a security question on your account like ‘What’s your mother’s maiden name?’ make sure it’s not actually your mother’s maiden name because information like that is quite easy to compromise,” said Taylor … Continue reading
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On Structures Appropriate and Effective
Let The Power Fall By Robert Fripp As posted to Netime By Geert Lovink 1997 1 One can work within any structure. 2 One can work within any structure, some structures are more efficient than others. 3 There is no … Continue reading
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Errata
I’ve seen this quoted as “Creation Is A Constant Correcting Of Errors”. That needs correcting. It is “drawing” that is the subject of this characterization and the generalization to “creation” is far more tentative… Drawing is a constant correcting of … Continue reading
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A Tale of Two Spaces
Daniel Tammet Born on a Blue Day On the library at Salt Lake City where he met fellow savant Kim Peek The huge space was infused with daylight and I felt the familiar tingle of tranquility inside me. Libraries had … Continue reading
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Shapely Sentence Quiz
Walter Pater in The Renaissance provides this neatly balanced assertion. He is before all things a poetical painter, blending the charm of story and sentiment, the medium of the art of poetry, with the charm of line and color, the … Continue reading
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From Trickle To Puddle
Karel Čapek I Had a Dog and a Cat I have never meditated before on how to get a dog from underneath a table, I suppose that it is usually done by sitting down on the floor and expostulating with … Continue reading
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