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Proofing, Reading, Discovering
Jonah Lehrer in the chapter “Gertrude Stein: The Structure of Language” in Proust Was a Neuroscientist What Stein discovered was a writing style that celebrated its grammatical mistakes. In her most radical prose, she manages to make us conscious of … Continue reading
Telling Typo
In a previous post quoting from Inventing Kindergarten by Norman Brosterman, “act” appears for “art”. A chair might become numbers, numbers act, and art either or both. And so it appeared on day 122 (15.04.2007) under the rubric “More on … Continue reading
Dissipation Anticipation
It is fun to find traces of the French text (spelling Zhabotinski with a terminal ‘i’ in the caption to Figure 16 p. 168 and ‘échelle’ in the legend to Figure F p. 185). Fun because they illustrate marvellously bedevilling … Continue reading
Fishing
“cutlure” first word in column three of page 7 of The Globe and Mail of Monday September 7, 1973 in an article with a Marshall McLuhan by-line entitled “Understanding McLuhan — and fie on any who don’t” cut lure for … Continue reading
Window
Brenda Carr’s essay in Tessera Volume 9 is blessed with a typo. Marlatt and Warland’s Double Negative situates itself at the intersection of the possible meanings for the word ‘negative.’ making the term vitually reversible. “Vitually”, a term marked by … Continue reading