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Neutron Picasso

Posted on January 27, 2009 by Francois Lachance

The copy on the back cover nicely encapsulates the premise of this romance-essay (somewhat like William Morris’s News From Nowhere). Descendants of the original forty-four emerge to an hospitable Earth nearly four centuries after the Bomb. They are met with … Continue reading →

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Long Time With Small

Posted on January 25, 2009 by Francois Lachance

I was first alerted to the stamp artwork of Donald Evans by a note on miniature reproductions of work by Gertrude Stein (note found in Susan Stewart’s On Longing p. 180 n. 45). So, of course, I had to see … Continue reading →

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Love, Self and Other

Posted on January 24, 2009 by Francois Lachance

Michael Warner “Thoreau’s Bottom” in Raritan XI:3 (Winter 1992). On Hegel on love: In Philosophy of Right, for example, Hegel declared that “love” could be defined as the experience of a problem: “The first moment in love is that I … Continue reading →

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Movement Moments

Posted on January 18, 2009 by Francois Lachance

P. xxxi Richard Kostelanetz intro to the Gertrude Stein Reader he edited (Cooper Square Press, 2002) draws upon the 1951 work by Donald Sutherland (Gertrude Stein: a biography of her work) to present an old rift/riff on the art of … Continue reading →

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Cocasse

Posted on January 15, 2009 by Francois Lachance

Edmund White provides a bilingual pun. If you know French you get an extra jolt. If you don’t, you still get a bit of fun. […] Didi dismisses them as vapid exhibitionists. “Look at their tight pants. Some are fascists, … Continue reading →

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Snares

Posted on January 14, 2009 by Francois Lachance

A key sentence restating the main motifs of a novel… Children know that to bring people together one has to seduce them, just like one seduces a lover, slowly, patiently, with stories and secrets. From The Winter Palace (a novel … Continue reading →

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Crying Babies

Posted on January 13, 2009 by Francois Lachance

In case you were wondering… Science Daily (Oct. 27, 2006) — Parents should listen to their instincts and pick up their newborn babies when they cry, Queensland University of Technology researcher Professor Karen Thorpe said. […] Professor Thorpe said in … Continue reading →

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Grids, Lists, Clusters

Posted on January 8, 2009 by Francois Lachance

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 18, No. 347. To extrapolate: the electronic medium facilitates reading in terms of clusters, lists, and tables (a type of reading that was always available to the clever manipulator of index cards). I like to think … Continue reading →

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Asking Why

Posted on January 7, 2009 by Francois Lachance

Vita Sackville-West in the very entertaining Nursery Rhymes (1947 Dropmore Press) prefaces a section with the marginal rubric “Further Awkward Dialgoue” with this delightful bit: Pity the pedagogue. It is indeed difficult to instruct the young. Arbitrary and ill-informed, they … Continue reading →

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Perspectives and Perversions

Posted on January 6, 2009 by Francois Lachance

Dave Morris begins his “Opening Doors” article about Rick Bébout’s web site (Eye May 12/05) by quoting Bébout on gay people and what they offer: “We should be gift-givers,” says Rick Bébout. “We should be people who understand we have … Continue reading →

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