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Proofing, Reading, Discovering
Jonah Lehrer in the chapter “Gertrude Stein: The Structure of Language” in Proust Was a Neuroscientist What Stein discovered was a writing style that celebrated its grammatical mistakes. In her most radical prose, she manages to make us conscious of … Continue reading
Sovereign Information
At one point in The Philosopher’s Stone: Chaos, Synchronicity, and the Hidden Order of the World David Peat contrasts an information theory view of communication with what might be characterized as a mental construction theory. The problem with the [information] … Continue reading
Pronouns matter; history even more
I used to admire Arthur Koestler’s The Act of Creation, the diagrams particularly. As entranced as I was there are some passage that did not escape my critical notice. For example I circled the feminine pronouns and wrote “heterosexism” in … Continue reading
UHF
A prolonged meditation on various psychic states is what marks the short story by Brian Vickers entitled “The Coded Sun Game” and published in Quark 3 edited by Samuel Delany and Marilyn Hacker. The piece reads in part like a … Continue reading
Gratitude & Attitude
It was part of a work-related self-esteem workshop. We were asked to write down five things we are grateful for in life. I tend to resist being social-worked but once I wrote the first the others came swiftly. my lover … Continue reading
Ceremony
I once was wisely told by Ted Chamberlin, “You have a story to tell, find a way to tell it” or words to such effect. And years afterwards I was enchanted once more to read in his book If This … Continue reading
Ardour
Adriana Hunter marvellously translates Catherine Millet’s candour as recorded in The Sexual Life of Catherine M. and is particularly adept as conveying the play of pronoun reference: […] an ability to program the body independently of physical reactions. A body … Continue reading