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Four Skills

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Remarks to Humanist stemming from a course about online learning http://dhhumanist.org/Archives/Virginia/v13/0246.html Namely a “translation” of the four literacy skills [reading, writing, speaking, listening] into four multimedia skills (i.e. more than applicable to verbal arts). I’ve manage to rename them thus: … Continue reading →

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Levity in the House

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Francois Lachance

What I find remarkable is the carry over of the joke from one day to the next. First instigated by the Minister in referring to Charlie Angus as that famous cartoon character Charlie Brown. And then he the next day … Continue reading →

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From Light to Light to Light

Posted on November 8, 2011 by Francois Lachance

I first came to the poetry of Iqbal through the music of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and this couplet from a ghazal [translated by K.C. Kanda] triggers for me a host of reflections on the image of the candle. The … Continue reading →

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Trading Marks

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Francois Lachance

From Editing Canadian English 2nd Edition Trademarks 11.37 Many publishers prefer to substitute generic terms for trademarks when the context allows: soft drink or cola for Coca-Cola jeans for Levi’s plastic wrap for Saran Wrap photocopy for Xerox The Canadian … Continue reading →

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Building Metaphors and Explaining When the Blow Over

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Joseph Boyden From Mushkegowuk to New Orleans: A Mixed Blood Highway Henry Kreisel Lecture 2008 And so maybe these two stories, both absolutely true, serve as metaphors for my life thus far. Maybe. But one thing I have learned as … Continue reading →

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Tragicomic Faces

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Paper cutout from 1970s. A study in symmetry And so for day 1784 01.11.2011

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Just What the Doctor Ordered

Posted on October 29, 2011 by Francois Lachance

The small promo movie that comes on the CD informs us that the album is about bringing everyone to a room of poisons and remedies. My favourite track and how I got introduced to the work of Carl Hancock Rux … Continue reading →

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A Nostrum

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Or why the Humanities matter even more now (good to revisit platitudes for they can be touchstones despite their limits) I point to the words of Walter Pater at the end of the chapter on Pico de la Mirandola in … Continue reading →

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The Demise of Capitalism

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Francois Lachance

This from 1965 … But the erosion of the market goes deeper yet. For the introduction of technology has one last effect whose ultimate implications for the metamorphosis of capitalism are perhaps greatest of all. This is the effect of … Continue reading →

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Heaving Heavy

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Kate Eichhorn Fieldnotes, a forensic (BookThug, 2010) In light and lighter weight are sections that read as if definitions from a dictionary or instructions from a screen play (shooting script). I skip over them noting their presence and think of … Continue reading →

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