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Wet Stones Whet Colour

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Barry Lopez in “The Passing Wisdom of Birds” in Crossing Open Ground makes a fine distinction. [T]hough it is possible to write precisely about something, this does not automatically mean one is accurate. Which is a sentiment/observation that plays in … Continue reading →

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Sound Sources Sound Quoting

Posted on August 7, 2010 by Francois Lachance

And so it begins… The Gift to be Simple: Songs, Dances and Rituals of the American Shakers (1940) by Edward Deming Andrews The first Shaker “songs” were wordless tunes. In their meetings at Manchester, on board the ship “Mariah” which … Continue reading →

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Halting Point & Tetrahedron Spin

Posted on August 2, 2010 by Francois Lachance

e.e. cummings “no then of winter equals now of spring” Helen Guri “It is hard to know the difference between body / and story, even though I have one” (“Some Containers and Ways to Make Them Spill” in Here Come … Continue reading →

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Three Takes on the Untold Taken

Posted on July 27, 2010 by Francois Lachance

There was Wallace Stevens (“The Relations between Poetry and Painting” in The Necessary Angel) who drew on Simone Weil: Simone Weil in La Pesanteur et La Grâce has a chapter on what she calls decreation. She says that decreation is … Continue reading →

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U.N.

Posted on July 25, 2010 by Francois Lachance

un discounting the dropped words (and the mangled French words in the English translation in a quotation from Georges Perec [1974] “Attempt at an Inventory of the Liquid and Solid Foodstuffs Ingurgitated by Me in the Course of the Year … Continue reading →

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Anatomizing the Anomalies

Posted on July 24, 2010 by Francois Lachance

The temper of Timpanaro: at points deliciously over the top. There is no mistaking his animus in the postscript. He is no friend of Freudianism: “psychoanalysis is neither a natural nor a human science, but a self-confession by the bourgeoisie … Continue reading →

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Affronts to Aboriginal and Arab Cultures

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Mark Abley treats us to engagements with the ghost of Duncan Campbell Scott, poet and bureaucrat, in a series of encounters related in Conversations with a Dead Man: The Legacy of Duncan Campbell Scott. Close to the end of the … Continue reading →

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Labrys Rising

Posted on July 20, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Andrea Dworkin 1975 Lesbian Pride in Our Blood: Prophecies and Discourses on Sexual Politics Delivered at a rally in Central Park The structure of the address is simple: three sources of lesbian meaning and power and to close, an admonishment … Continue reading →

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Der Hauch

Posted on July 17, 2010 by Francois Lachance

What do you smell when you smell a book? What do you breathe in when accessing bits and bytes? Do you have the aroma of coffee wafting nearby? Jeffrey T. Schnapp & Matthew Battels The Library Beyond the Book The … Continue reading →

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Epic of Cloth

Posted on July 15, 2010 by Francois Lachance

The useful life of fabric is set forth as a catalogue of thrift. Toni Morrison in Jazz employs an epic simile that rises naturally out of the thoughts of one woman ironing. Alice had finished the sheets and begun the … Continue reading →

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