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In Praise of Consistency
Ned Rorem in what can be described as a cat and mouse interview with Lawrence D. Mass (published in Queering the Pitch: the new gay and lesbian musicology) is confronted with a passage from Walt Whitman. It appears that Mass … Continue reading
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Smooth Striations
Almost like a reminder of the room as time-machine in Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency [and for this reader: the metaphor of the book in hand as time-machine], the potential of language as a transportation device is referenced by Marie-Laure … Continue reading
Insets
It is a prolonged meditation and puzzling over the relation of insets and calendars that has led me to lay down the following tracks. Third stanza of “In The Country Where They Have No Maps” by Sandra Kasturi in The … Continue reading
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Dedication Deciphering
Adam Gopnik. Winter: Five Windows on the Season. The Massey Lectures. For Gudrun Bjerring Parker Filmmaker, feminist, lover of the world, woman of the north, who raised and loved and nurtured and then let go of my own true love, … Continue reading
unbodylike objects
Giles Deleuze’s Logique du sens brought me to Émile Bréhier. La théorie des incorporels. 1962. p. 44. Ce qui fait le fond des arguments d’Aristote contre le vide, c’est que dans le vide en lui-même, on ne peut arriver à … Continue reading
Cotrupi on Frye on Displacement
A quotation from Northrop Frye and the Poetics of Process. Caterina Nella Cotrupi. pp. 84-85. What Frye understands by this term [displacement] is the gradual tendency observable in literature over time to move away from the pole of fiction and … Continue reading
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Of The Endings of Games
Trying to decipher a thought process from 2001 or 2002. The entries are not dated but occur between entries that are. More mishaps. Misspelt author. Missing publication information. The notebook has “Callois” and page numbers. And no title. No translator’s … Continue reading
Clioscope and HTML
I have come across the promo for a workshop on wordsmithing for the World Wide Web Wednesday September 10/97, 7:30-9:30 pm http://www.interaccess.org/weavers/panel2.html Francois will be using the example of Clioscope to discuss authoring dynamic text. The presentation will focus on … Continue reading
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Scanning Net Work of Networks
I have lifted this from publication elsewhere and elsewhen to bring it to a novel space and time. Self-spamming? Somewhere spam senders are paying for connectivity and somewhere that service is being taxed and somewhere revenues are being generated for … Continue reading
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Wow
I am amazed that I was able to think so coherently on an abstract plane. This is taken from MetaMimetics – HyperMnemonics From With Towards There in the book On the Origin of Objects by Brian Cantwell Smith, a passage … Continue reading