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Patti Smith from “notebook” in Early Work 1970-1979 [after a number of lines exploring what it means to be american] Freedom is a waterfall, is pacing linoleum till dawn, is the right to write the wrong words. and I done … Continue reading →

Neither, nor, but nevertheless … necessity. Style is a matter of bending and transforming language so as to create the personae and the contest or game for those singular ideas for which there preexist neither the words nor the story, … Continue reading →

Charlie Mackesy ends or rather relaunches the imagination sous rature in The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse with this gentle reminder: the end look how far we’ve come what makes this so serene is the pen work … Continue reading →

Magic number 20 more or less … Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. … Continue reading →

At the end of the sequence comes the section with the title-giving anecdote. My erasure. The fire read my books, turning and curling the pages, blackening their edges, folding back the sheets as if inviting me into bed. The splayed … Continue reading →

Charles Taylor The Language Animal It belongs perhaps to the very nature of rituals of repair that their outcomes can never be certain. But in any case, they appear to be a perennial feature of human life. Forever without the … Continue reading →

By chance these two quotations come to settle here. What came surreptitiously into being between the age of theatre and that of the catalogue was not the desire for knowledge, but a new way of connecting things both to the … Continue reading →