Tag Archives: Perspectives

North Never Lost

Posted on December 18, 2007 by Francois Lachance

Robert Kroetsch in “The Canadian Writer and the American Literary Tradition” collected in The Lovely Treachery of Words: Essays Selected and New makes the case for a pervasive and flexible idea of north. This silence — this impulse towards the … Continue reading →

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Sidereal Aspirations

Posted on November 28, 2007 by Francois Lachance

Robin Skelton ends the last of the four sections of “Four Inscriptions” in Landmarks with an appeal beyond the vagaries of posterity. No-one is listening. It does not matter. I am making something for far stars. This reminds me of … Continue reading →

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Zest for Zen

Posted on June 30, 2007 by Francois Lachance

Mikhail Bulgakov The Master and Margarita translated by Diana Burgin and Katherine Tiernan O’Connor provides a most marvellous set of casuistic teasers. Despite the theater manager’s promise to Azazello never to lie again, he began with a lie. Although one … Continue reading →

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Travels

Posted on December 17, 2006 by Francois Lachance

Via a 1970 imprint published at Kandy, Ceylon, by the Buddhist Publication Society and the scholarly work of Bhikkhu Nanajivako, a passage from The World as Will and Respresentation as translated into English by E.F.J. Payne, a passage bearing on … Continue reading →

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