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Reading Creases
On a piece of yellow orange paper there is a diagram of the elements of constructivist pedagogy: an isosceles triangle oriented along a vertical axis with the bottom vertices labelled “communication” and “collaboration” with the apex, “construction”. An evident interpretation … Continue reading
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Producing Transformations
From a photocopy of a work by Eli Zaretsky the catchword in the formwork reads “Capitalism and Personal Life” [could be a chapter or a running head for the title of a whole book] and the page number is “63”. … Continue reading
A Taste for Algebra
From a file folder from the early 1990s a typescript of a single paragraph with heading: Identity & Dichotomy Has it ever struck you that when one colour associated with X is taken up by Y, it means something Z? … Continue reading
Revisiting
A longish ramble from a journal entry dated July 26/05 I had been wanting to use a quotation from the preface to Thomas Moore’s Care of the Soul but completion of the book and careful re-reading of the sentence have … Continue reading
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Card trick
Found inscribed on an index card: The nucleus of a narrative would be a description plus a question. The hand writing is loose and the “nucleus” looks like the German word “Nachen” — sailing vessel. And so for day 113 … Continue reading
Alerted States
A notebook entry from 10/12/00 references some posting read on a discussion list: Basically the old line that F2F [face-to-face] is better than online because [there are] more cues in the physical interaction that therefore can guide the social / … Continue reading
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Pun
The context is mayoral. The truth universal. Honest Ed’s is a commercial icon in the city of Toronto. Along with flashing lights, blow ups of newspaper copy adorn its exterior walls. Some two and a half feet off the ground … Continue reading
Observations
Stray slips transcribed: The task of the asker is to observe and test. Descriptions engage risks. For me they are contingent; they are hypotheses. There is a scientific cast to these inscriptions on slips of paper that are used as … Continue reading
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Swallow
Meredith Monk “The Tale” recorded in a 2:47 version on Dolmen Music challenges transcription. It is difficult to do justice to these two lines [?] among the others without reference to the vocables that surround their annunciation. There is no … Continue reading
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Inscriptions
Upon the occasion of a second hand book sale an encounter with a dead man’s (Roger Spalding’s) copy of a still living author’s novel (Edmund White’s The Beautiful Room is Empty) there is an opportunity to enter the ethos of … Continue reading