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Matricial Musings
New meaning to stack overflow… Spell the never filled () runs over ::: the stack that is a scattering ::: responding to form to begin a journey into speech with the likes of Michelle Cliff prefacing The Land of Look … Continue reading
Trauma Truce
Trauma Truce From a letter to a young scholar. Menachem, I was rereading a preface by Adrienne Rich. The preface is collected in On Lies, Secrets and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978. The preface is dated 1976 and it entitled ”Conditions … Continue reading
Street Furniture
A block of a bench. Designed against surfboarding — note the lip. Shutters protecting chalk image against night time erasure or graffiti tags. (Worth observing in situ at 577 Queen Street West, Toronto). And displacing car parking with a whole … Continue reading
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Central Heating and Cloud Computing
Where is “hearth”? Kenneth Frampton. The Status of Man and the Status of His Objects: A Reading of The Human Condition. (1979) Furthermore, the word “edifice” relates directly to the verb “to edify,” which not only carries within itself the … Continue reading
Puns and Nonesuch
Signage that is memorable. There are the magnificent murals of Pour Boy. Where one assumes that a poor boy (or girl) can quaff a modestly priced brew. Apiecalypse Now! – That’s pie as in pizza in case you missed the … Continue reading
Little Fish Big Fish
John Varley Wizard […] and Nox, the Midnight Sea. It shimmered in the silvery light. Embedded in the water were nebular drifts of luminescence, cold blue beneath the brighter surface reflections. There were harder, more compact light sources, some a … Continue reading
Better Barter
Some lore from the Medieval Ages that pertains to camels and the nature of exchange: If the owner of a camel sells it, the camel mourns and grows ill, not for loss of his master, but because he thinks the … Continue reading
Fluff
It reads like a parody of the Little Free Library outposts. Welcome to the installation. With text and fibre. Beginning “I thought” Back panel: you were solid / but you’re The picture here captures the shutter-bug and brings to mind … Continue reading
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Lounging With Lorca
I am disappointed in Lorca who never ceasing for one moment to see the beard of old beautiful Walt Whitman full of butterflies — mariposas — such a fetching image (see the cover of the City Lights 1988 edition) — … Continue reading
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Staging Silence
From 2000, from some notes towards a proposal: It can be easily noted that Hofmannsthal’s Elektra builds its plot upon who sees, who hears, who appears, who is heard. There is a thematic movement from sight to hearing, from appearance … Continue reading
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