Category Archives: Transcriptions

Frye Reading Delany

Northrop Frye’s annotations to Samuel R. Delany’s Neveryóna consist mainly of marking passages of interest with a vertical line in the margin. There is one comment of note. Under the epigraph from Shoshana Felman (Turning the Screw of Interpretation), Frye … Continue reading

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1846

I recently found myself recommending a neat site for the grandchildren of my sister. (Parks Canada has great site on the Burgess Shale with a virtual submarine ride. See http://burgess-shale.rom.on.ca/en/index.php). My repeating this here serves as a pretext to introduce … Continue reading

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Alien Positions

I here repeat a gesture of acknowledgement. I thank Marie-Michelle Strah for the exchange of words and ideas, via e-mail, via post and in person. This snippet (without diacritical marks) gives you a small impression of what thinking in two … Continue reading

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Sodomy and Myth

Back in the days when I still engaged with the archetypes of Christian thought, I was having a rather inspired day when I typed out the following Yet it was the serpent’s spectrum that led Adam to Sodomize Eve and … Continue reading

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Solitude Transcriptions

A little journal entry from a end of March or beginning of April 2003. Now the question of solitude becomes apparent in its urgency. To be alone is to break away from being on. from being in a situation of … Continue reading

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Frames

Frame One Salman Rushdie in Imaginary Homelands. Essays and Criticism 1981-1991 writes about a book of images by John Bishton and John Reardon called Home Front. He makes this point: But the significance of such a photographic essay as Home … Continue reading

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Autobiographical Artefacts

To participate in MOOs and Talkers I have created “yred”. The name comes from a feature from the now defunct web-based chat room Bianca’s Smut Shack where the name “red” was made to appear in yellow type. Hence “yellow-red” shortened … Continue reading

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New Clarifications

I suspect this was writing produced while participating in Fadi Abou-Rihan‘s seminar on Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus. Jaspers on Kant i.e. synthetic versus analytic judgements. Introducing the quotation, I wrote at the time that “I think that this distinction may … Continue reading

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Metaphor as Shaper

Doreen Maitre in Literature and Possible Worlds quotes Max Black the metaphor selects, emphasises, suppresses and organises features of the principal subject by implying statements about it that normally apply to the subsidiary subject Max Black “Metaphor” in Proceedings of … Continue reading

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Unaddressed: Lament and Laceration

Tucked into a notebook a torn piece of paper with a message totally unrelated to the longish bit about narratology that was the notebook’s subject at that spot… To: bodily fluids were banned by the CIA campaign of disinformation about … Continue reading

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