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Delicate Tensility
Recalling the toughness of the body by invoking its frailties. the incessant waves seize me, my hands on my head in my hair, I don’t forget how fragile the brain is under the bone of the cranium, how friable the … Continue reading
Nodes, Lists, Pants
Leslie Scalapino “Footnoting” in The Public World / Syntactically Impermanence in her own abstract way supplies me with an epigraph to my indulging in To produce this impermanence by iterating dissimilarities until they become something else—is the opposite movement of … Continue reading
Sanguine Bravura
En rouge! Elle tricote du rouge, la mère! un rouge magnétique, frénétique, un rouge de pulsions! Un rouge biographique, définitivement triomphant contre le neutre, l’objectif, le nul, le propre. Et son foulard finit toujours par ressembler, je ne sais pourquoi, … Continue reading
Mind the Gap
In her hommage to Michael Lynch (“White Glasses”) Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick invokes gaps twice the opacity loss installs within ourselves and our vision, the unreconciled and irreconcilably incendiary emerges streaming through that subtractive gap, that ragged scar of meaning, regard, … Continue reading
Demonic Irony
Ironically demonic. Of course that isn’t the way I described his actions to myself at the time. Nobody uses phrases like “a man possessed” any more. “Possessed” by what? There are no demons in the Twentieth Century, we all realize … Continue reading
What Colour Is Your Bowl?
I like the enumeration at the end of this passage. It gives you the impression of peering into the cups to appreciate their coloration and the effect it might have on whipped green tea. The cups Lu Yu liked best … Continue reading
My Personal Set of Values
Developed as an exercise in self-knowledge. Made public here as an exercise in time-testing: seeing if the statement (and its anaphora) will withstand the test of time. Integrity I see this value reflected in follow-up to commitments no matter how … Continue reading
List Power
Jan Zita Grover would move from San Francisco to Minnesota and produce a meditation upon landscape and grieving … North Enough: AIDS and Other Clear-Cuts. But before that migration, she contributed a review of the discursive counters set down by … Continue reading
Biblio Trivia
Trivial Pursuit was invented in Canada (Glenn Close mentions the cast of The Big Chill enjoying the game she brought from Canada – it not being available in the U.S.A. at the time of the filming). There’s a scene in … Continue reading
predictions and exaggerations
You get carried in by the pile up. There are easier tasks in this word than making annual economic forecasts. Like, say, trying to hit the bull’s-eye on a constantly moving dartboard. From 100 metres. Blindfolded. David Parkinson in the … Continue reading