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Signage. Alan Davies. “Private Enigma in the Opened Text” This present writing defines those private enigmas with which the author sometimes pierces his text. These are distinct from, for example: the narratively enigmatic which, functioning, becomes through reappearance, a character … Continue reading →

The Toronto Review of Books has issued a “Tasting Menu” which includes Brett Story on “Occupying Prisons” in which I was struck by this well-constructed sentence about Quaker reform gone awry. But something strange quickly became evident: solitary confinement, rather … Continue reading →

Salman Rushdie’s narrator, Saleem, in Midnight’s Children is prone to reading history in associative terms and it is perhaps fitting that we hereby bring the final paragraph of the novel in close proximity to a scatological moment — an almost … Continue reading →

Beside the non-fiction of The Evidence of Things Not Seen by James Baldwin one puts the short story by Toni Cade Bambara “Madame Bai and the Taking of Stone Mountain” in Deep Sightings & Rescue Missions. The title announces something … Continue reading →

It was in reading Against Interpretation cover to cover in the order the essays appear instead of selectively in what ever order piqued my curiosity (I had years ago consulted the “Notes on Camp”) that I noticed that the end … Continue reading →

Our narrator discloses: Re-reading my work, I have discovered an error in chronology. The assassination of Mahatma Gandhi occurs, in these pages, on the wrong date. But I cannot say, now, what the actual sequence of events might have been; … Continue reading →

Where he would use “ideology” I would refer to “dogmatism”. I believe we all operate out of ideology whether acknowledged or not. Some ideologies are hegemonic; others, counter-hegemonic. In any case I like world views that promote the value of … Continue reading →

These remarks about the novels of Philip K. Dick point to a dialectic. […] in these fictions where words are used to reveal the unreality of things and where things are used to reveal the instabilities of words. from Chapter … Continue reading →