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White on time in the novel
Edmund White The Burning Library “Southern Belles Lettres: Cormac McCarthy” Time as a resource… Since fiction, like music, is primarily a temporal art, any device that inflects the reader’s perception of time becomes crucial, not just as a hook for … Continue reading
Ghost Days Spectral Hours
Jill Walker Rettberg. Blogging To really understand blogs, you need to read them over time. Following a blog is like getting to know someone, or like watching a television series. […] A blog consists of more than words and images. … Continue reading
Spectral Hours Ghost Days
Jill Walker Rettberg. Blogging To really understand blogs, you need to read them over time. Following a blog is like getting to know someone, or like watching a television series. […] A blog consists of more than words and images. … Continue reading
less-slower-worse
At first I was taken by this tack to the lifestyle of rush. Then I read more slowly and realized that what is proposed is less about “taking time” and more about “controlling rhythm”. Try to read this not as … Continue reading
Positions
A character created by Julia Kristeva in The Samurai translated by Barbara Bray takes a look at some fascinating people: Olga put the camera down and looked at them affectionately. These feverish intellectuals were infectious. They were restless. Accelerated particles. … Continue reading
Boom!
A commonplace blog is like the tape recorders described in The Ticket That Exploded by William S. Burroughs. Here are some excerpts spliced into a new ordering: A tape recorder is an externalized section of the human nervous system. You … Continue reading
Impermanence
It is worth sometimes to revisit the passages copied out for placement in a gathering of commonplaces. For example this snippet from the C.K. Scott Moncrieff translation of Cities of the Plain “The Heart’s Intermissions” seems a tad melancholic: The … Continue reading
Time Gate
Todd May in Gilles Deleuze: an introduction has a passage that recalls for me Benjamin’s invocation of the jetztzeit: If we think temporally with Bergson, the world is always more than it seems, always fraught with differences that can actualize … Continue reading
Driftweed
Phyllis Webb in Sunday Water: Thirteen Anti Ghazals invites the reader to Hear the atoms ambling, the genes a-tick in grandfather’s clock, in the old bones of beach. driftweed is perhaps what the beach washes up but wave upon rushing … Continue reading
Calendar
Imagine a 6 day week and 60 weeks in a year. All in support of the four day work week. Great for scheduling: shifts in 4, 8 and 12 hours with sufficient down time between. 60 gives five weeks to … Continue reading