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Day 2001 – Intellectual Exchange
On this day, a very short sentence. His favourite apophthegm is “we sometimes connect by disentangling.” A smart quip for a bio. And so for day 2001 05.06.2012
Riposte
F.R. Scott in The Dance is One has a poem answering McLuhan’s The Mechanical Bride. It is entitled “The Miniaturized Groom” and is a series of short statements about the adage the medium is the message. Scott quips that McLuhan … Continue reading
Whistle While You Work
Link this to Audre Lorde’s concept of biomythography. the lifework of every gay man has been the transformation of the loathed into the loved John Preston, “Goodbye to Sally Gerhart [1981] in Mark Blasius & Shane Phelan (eds.), We Are … Continue reading
The Tip
Either of tongue or finger Fingerspitzengefühl Intuition is counter-intuitive: while it appears to be quick and spontaneous, it actually takes effort, calculation, and memory. Charles Jencks. The Garden of Cosmic Speculations (London: Frances Lincoln Ltd., 2003). Akin to sprezzatura and … Continue reading
The trolls will always be with you.
Like the poor from the New Testament pronouncement they are here to stay. While walking home, I was given to reflecting upon the favourite rhetorical moves of the troll clan. It struck me that they are similar to the preachers … Continue reading
The Pedagogue as Truant
Copied 28/11/00 into a steno pad. A set of lines from Rumi on the teacher: Your robe brushes a thorn bush, and a deep chord of music comes. Whatever you break finds itself more intelligent for being broken. Paraphrased by … Continue reading
Recollecting Recounting
Stop me if you have heard this one before. How comes it that our memories are good enough to retain even the minutest details of what has befallen us, but not to recollect how many times we have recounted them … Continue reading
Eventualities
word route or math path lotto = taxed dreams biodestiny = you die And so for day 1430 12.11.2010
Better Barter
Some lore from the Medieval Ages that pertains to camels and the nature of exchange: If the owner of a camel sells it, the camel mourns and grows ill, not for loss of his master, but because he thinks the … Continue reading
Notes on Disbursements
Antonio Porchia I know what I have given you, I do not know what you have received. Nick Hanauer The most insidious thing about trickle-down economics isn’t believing that if the rich get richer, it’s good for the economy. It’s … Continue reading