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Potential Transplant

Posted on July 9, 2008 by Francois Lachance

From “Foreign Children” from Robert Louis Stevenson A Child’s Garden of Verses Little Indian, Sioux or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee. Oh! don’t you wish you were me? And on the poetic voice goes to extoll the … Continue reading →

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Generous Spirit

Posted on June 15, 2008 by Francois Lachance

I have always been struck by the border between generous comment and irony. Take for example, Northrop Frye in a lecture on Oswald Spengler for CBC radio in the series Architects of Modern Thought Spengler’s book [The Decline of the … Continue reading →

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Inscriptions

Posted on December 19, 2006 by Francois Lachance

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 →

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