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Good Word on Good Food
A tricolon and a snatch more… To entertain successfully one must create with the imagination of a playwright, plan with the skill of a director, and perform with the instincts of an actor. And, as any showman will tell you, … Continue reading
Garden Inhabitants
I like how the tricolon trips up on the enjambement. Then all our goblins would turn out to be elves, Our vampires guides, our demons angels In that garden. Lines from Ted Hughes “Stubbing Wharfe” in Birthday Letters. I like … Continue reading
Fearlessness and Allied Emotions
Linda Hutcheon concludes her introduction to Northrop Frye’s The Bush Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination with a quotation from an article by Jon Slan. He wrote that Frye had “the courage to confront the present without distaste, the past … Continue reading
creating, communicating, collaborating
Donald G. Lenihan with Jay Kaufman. Centre for Collaborative Government. Leveraging our Diversity: Canada as a Learning Society. Changing Government Volume 4. November 2001. Planning and building a learning society thus goes well beyond preparing Canadians for participation in the … Continue reading
Moral Mnemonic
Anne McCaffrey in the first volume of the Harper Hall trilogy, Dragonsong, has a lovely set of verses set as an epigraph to chapter 7. Who wills, Can. Who tries, Does. Who loves, Lives. I like how the lines are … Continue reading
Oscar on Absinthe
Coffee with Oscar Wilde by Merlin Holland is a lovely fictional interview. Our hero towards the end suggests a move to a more potent drink. Do you fancy a glass of absinthe? Just one, mind you — more can be … Continue reading
Morals, Legacies and Books
Patti Smith about the recording of Horses at Electric Lady. From her memoir, Just Kids. Jimi Hendrix never came back to create his new musical language, but he left behind a studio that resonated all his hopes for the future … Continue reading
Triplets
Fadi Abou-Rihan in “Affect-Time” posted at The Psychoanalytic Field provides us with an enlightening tricolon: Indeed, there is nothing unitary about the drive, the dream, and the transference; the drive is polymorphous, the dream is overdetermined, and the transference is … Continue reading
Theatre, Picture, Word
There is mystery. Wendell Piez reminds the TEI [Text Encoding Initiative] gang in a posting of July 31, 2006: There may actually be a hidden lesson here, Martin, especially in view of the last exchange on editing software. You recall … Continue reading
A Description of Character; a reflection of atmosphere
“My Marriage to Vengeance” collected in A Place I’ve Never Been by David Leavitt. But for Diana — well, from day one it was adventure, event and episode. “Episode” concludes the listing and gives it a hint of disease or … Continue reading