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Cleaning the Unclean
Linda Pastan in the “bargaining” section of The Five Stages of Grief has a short poem with a long title “A Short History of Judaic Thought in the Twentieth Century” which begins with the description of a rabbinical decree: The … Continue reading
States of Denial
This seems to be a call against stringent skepticism. Science can no more deny that there is something to “know” and that knowledge stands for a worth, than can religion deny that there is something to worship. from Robert Duncan, … Continue reading
Deictic Delights
It’s a typographic joy with all its whitespace and judicious mix of fonts. Sparrow 66 Black Sparrow Press, March 1978 It features a poem by Gerard Malanga “This Will Kill That”. As with many paratextual matters, not sure if the … Continue reading
Chained to Change
I was reading an entry at jill/txt about generations to come. “Can you imagine that the world will change?” broaches the topic of a “future deficit” and the consequences of the “broad present” [Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. The Broad Present: Time … Continue reading
Dancing and Songs Undanced
I thoroughly enjoyed the chorus that knits together the narration of what would be a collection of disparate tales. I like the wryness of the collective “we” that comments on the next generation’s path. I do like. I can almost … Continue reading
Salty Passions
Peter Kline in The Everyday Genius makes a useful observation about how theory cleaves to practice. Theory often meditates between two practices or two aspects of a multi-player activity. Kline is concerned with the connection between thinking about learning and … Continue reading
Catch Up Determinism
The narrator in Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko muses on the nature of grand narrative: No matter what you or anyone else did, Marx said, history would catch up with you; it was inevitable, it was relentless. … Continue reading
Not Stopping
From Audre Lorde The Cancer Journals Castaneda talks of living with death as your guide, that sharp awareness engendered by the full possibility of any given chance and moment. For me, that means being — not ready for death — … Continue reading
Care
A.J. Ayer summarizing Bertrand Russell on Christianity does a splendid job in three sentences This is not to argue that the moral failings, which Christians share with others, prove Christianity untrue. On the theological side, the grounds for not believing … Continue reading
Times
Susan Stewart from On Longing The simultaneity of the printed word lends the book its material aura; as an object it has a life of its own, a life outside human time, the time of the body and its voice. … Continue reading