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Being Curious and Being Caring
On On Browsing by Jason Guriel Leaning on his memory of physical locations, Guriel praises curation, laudsserendipity, and pays tribute to the affordances that assist one in slowingdown. By the end of the short book that sets browsing the physical … Continue reading
E V A P O R A T I O N
VERSschmuggel / reVERSible: An Anthology of English Canadian Poetry / Poésie du Québec / Dichtung aus Deutschland Tristan Malavoy on the poetry of Nancy Hünger at 46:26 … there is this idea that language is never fully acquired; it can … Continue reading
Unlock Before Reading
I am reading Steven Price’s Anatomy of Keys which takes as its subject the life and lore of Harry Houdini. First line of the first poem : The trunk alone understands the journey. It almost arrests the reading from the … Continue reading
Representations of Possibilities
In post-war Japan, Cecilia Chiang is trying to adjust to a new life. I was on my way back one afternoon from buying some fish for dinner — fish was in no short supply and was the one thing I … Continue reading
Theatre of Succession
Somewhere somewhen June Jacobs spoke or wrote about the succession of small businesses in a health neighbourhood. Street watchers were treated to a particularly interesting event following the closure of the Queen Video store on Bloor. A theatre troupe took … Continue reading
Video Game : Generations
Chris Banks The Cloud Versus Grand Unification Theory “All-Night Arcade” Being in the zone. Being from the zone. Time and space stand still for the price of a quarter. […] Nostalgia is a verdict for not living well, which is … Continue reading
Contemplating Destinations
It reads like an homage to the gazetteer form. Nowhere is the appeal of the airport more concentrated than in the television screens that hang in rows from the terminal ceilings to announce the departure and arrival of flights, whose … Continue reading
Unfinished Finish
The non sequitur operates less like the lone tender shoot in a vase than a klang. The struggle of the tree to overcome the relentless forces of the environment can be found in its every fibre. Its fight for life, … Continue reading
Pre-genital Crush
Mark Merlis in An Arrow’s Flight [published in the U.K. under the title Pyrrhus] has the narrator meditate on a notion of desire that captures the spirit of boyhood that is a country unto itself. Our narrator says Do you … Continue reading
Liminal Delight
Sutherland, the voice of the aesthetic arbitrator, in Andrew Holleran’s Dancer from the Dance reminds me at times in some of his baroque formulations of the passage in Edmund White’s Forgetting Elena about the possible permutations of the pronunciations of … Continue reading