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Dialogue-provoking Temporal Deictic
Nic Salvato “Camp Performance and the Case of Discotropic” in After Queer Studies: Literature, Theory and Sexuality in the 21st Century edited by Tyler Bradway and E.L. McCallum A close reading of time stamps (and this day which is not … Continue reading
Generations and Terminations
Julia Cooper The Last Word: Reviving the Dying Art of Eulogy [A] baby is not in fact a piece of immortality, but rather another piece of mortality. Multiplication is not continuation. And so for day 2521 07.11.2013
Flagging
From Humanist 32.138 Fish’ing and the words in front of us Re: 32.135 Fish’ing and the words in front of us Willard I know you as one to problematize “words”. I too want to set aside for the time being … Continue reading
Chronomatics
Julia Child on diversions and variations on the adage of the watched pot. Timing: Tripe is far from being a fast-food operation. It needs soaking, and simmering, and the long slow cooking — 5 to 7 hours or more, depending … Continue reading
Circle: Book, Hand, Book
As the light fades, no attempt to bring on artificial lighting. This is how “A Happy Birthday” ends — on the image of the hand. I could easily have switched on a lamp, but I wanted to ride this day … Continue reading
Lines & Lives
“Stop. Start Again.” from Richard Sanger Dark Woods On the last day of the year, in the last year of the century I was born in, I went into the woods with my brothers. It was cold, there was a … Continue reading
Intersection of Temporalities
To the writing belongs one time series. In Wabi Sabi, a book by Mark Reibstein with art by Ed Young, there “are Japanese haiku that appear decoratively throughout the book.” They are also gathered at the end with transliterations and … Continue reading
Synth Perv
Top right corner, green ink, partial underline: probably indicates the topic: synesthesia. Green highlight of a paper by Peng Yi with Latin phrase (Litterae Pervversae) in the title; right margin inscription: Peversity [sic] & Synesthesia. Long line down the edge … Continue reading
Halting Point & Tetrahedron Spin
e.e. cummings “no then of winter equals now of spring” Helen Guri “It is hard to know the difference between body / and story, even though I have one” (“Some Containers and Ways to Make Them Spill” in Here Come … Continue reading
Trip Tips
Mitch Cullin. A Slight Trick of the Mind. We find a Sherlock Holmes in advanced age. And the novel raises existential questions about memory and loss. But also about love. Is our protagonist able to love? Is he able to … Continue reading