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Teaching the World to Dance

Posted on May 30, 2010 by Francois Lachance

PRIDE Screenplay by by Stephen Beresford. I laughed. I cried. Two scenes were standout. Jonathan Blake (played by Dominic West) dance number. It’s on fire. A rousing rendition of Bread and Roses. Simply stirring. Why would such a film arouse … Continue reading →

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Trip Tips

Posted on May 29, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Mitch Cullin. A Slight Trick of the Mind. We find a Sherlock Holmes in advanced age. And the novel raises existential questions about memory and loss. But also about love. Is our protagonist able to love? Is he able to … Continue reading →

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Mucking About

Posted on May 24, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Reprocessing and revising material and finding new stuff (e.g. David Miall at U of Alberta presenting notes about and excerpts from Kristeva on the semiotic and the abject for a course on the Gothic). Dig this quotation provided by Miall … Continue reading →

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Dress Tree Flame

Posted on May 19, 2010 by Francois Lachance

There are many commentaries on the red dress in Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea but few touch upon the temporal displacements initiated by its presence. First the dress and its sensory impact: The scent that came from the dress was … Continue reading →

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House Hunting

Posted on May 17, 2010 by Francois Lachance

It might reappear at some point in time on her website. Meanwhile guard your clippings. It did appear in the Globe and Mail – Toronto Saturday edition (14.01.2012). Not online at the Globe and Mail but they do provide a … Continue reading →

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Familiar Complexity

Posted on May 16, 2010 by Francois Lachance

From 2004, on John Forbes Nash from a posting to Humanist Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 18, No. 220 picking up a thread from Re Humanist: 18.127 Nash’s hope. Bringing in proximity a biographical note and a reference to a book … Continue reading →

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SHORTS ON SHORTNESS OF LIFE

Posted on May 10, 2010 by Francois Lachance

To judge a book by its cover, this one is an homage to Jenny Holzer. Holzer on screen and cityscape (from the days of Truisms) and George Murray in book work (Glimpse) trade in aphorisms. One of my favourites from … Continue reading →

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Marker Mindfulness

Posted on May 9, 2010 by Francois Lachance

At the corner of Crawford and Barton, north west corner of Christie Pits, in the tree-planted area where the Garrison Creek is marked, across from St. Raymond Catholic School. One tree caught my attention, not so much for is commemorative … Continue reading →

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Escape Velocities and Stillness

Posted on May 7, 2010 by Francois Lachance

“Notes Towards a Minor Art Practice” Simon O’Sullivan http://drainmag.com Vol 2.2. Syncretism (2005) It is then as if there must be two moments, or movements, to a minor practice: one of dissent (either a strategic withdrawal as a form of … Continue reading →

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What Pops Up Pops Out

Posted on May 6, 2010 by Francois Lachance

The copy in Robarts Library was presented by Jearld Moldenhauer. Robert Glück. Family Poems. “The Body” (1979) Some of us went on to wear our erections like jewelry and others of us didn’t. An unusual carrot — purple with two … Continue reading →

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