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Detail Dilation
I am always fascinated by the text that is what it is describing it to be. I rather like the description of Leonardo’s practice in one of the lectures from Italo Calvino (Six Memos for the Next Millennium). One can … Continue reading
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Fabulous Fabulist
Edmund White on Proust Proust may be more available to readers today than in the past because as his life recedes in time and the history of his period goes out of focus, he is read more as a fabulist … Continue reading
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Recounting
I like this characterization of the work of anthropologist Claude Lévi-Straus. There is an Hassidic parable which tells us that God created man so that man might tell stories. This telling of stories is, according to Lévi-Strauss, the very condition … Continue reading
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Temporal and Spatial Qualities of the Novel
In honour of Tara Collington, friend from graduate school days, and author of Lectures chronotopiques: Espace, temps et genres romanesques There is an old riff I’ve always imagined to have been invented by some graduate student […] struggling through Kant’s … Continue reading
Unknown and Unknowing
Garrison Keillor in a story “My Life in Prison” collected in We are Still Married: Stories and Letters provides the following opening to entice curiosity: Ever since the day I first walked out onstage and blinked and cleared my throat, … Continue reading
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Thesis Report
Things mutate while they are being written, especially big pieces. I found a copy of a “report” to file that documents what I was trying to accomplish in the argumentation of a key passage in my dissertation where I move … Continue reading
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Listenings
From the interview with Monkey Bread, in the Daughters of Nzingha newsletter in the novel Mosquito by Gayl Jones. Remember that listeners have got imaginations and sometimes their imaginations are richer than anything they can hear. Tell your stories right … Continue reading
Sounds like Simian
Eugene Fiume “Going Digital is Going Human” IDE&AS Volume 4, Number 2 Simulation comes easily to us. We are wired to simulate. Recent discoveries in neuroscience suggest that we have “mirror neurons” that, among other things, help us to understand … Continue reading
Resetting Three Pieces by Robert Kroetsch
These three passage from two separate articles from Robert Kroetsch’s The Lovely Treachery of Words tell a story about story telling and the English-Canadian experience. First from “The Exploding Porcupine” That contribution [Ondaatje’s] is story. But story of a special … Continue reading
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Avijk
It’s a whale of a story. And a story about a whale. Here’s how it ends. The third time Avijk phones, my roommate answers. The line is dead, so she knows it’s Avijk and calls for me. But the line … Continue reading
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