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Found Pieces
fagus pleated gears and acceleration sequences images combine when reading quickly readily recombine that is Phyllis Webb in Sunday Water: Thirteen Anti Ghazals invites the reader to Hear the atoms ambling, the genes a-tick in grandfather’s clock, in the old … Continue reading
Re-purposing
Alan Fletcher in The Art of Looking Sideways reproduces Erotic Surrealist Handsigns. One discovers a clever juxtaposition of a chart of the handsigns from the deaf alphabet and associated with each of these letters a word. For example, “U” stands … Continue reading
Finger Pieces
There is a recent entry in Berneval that slyly substitutes the word “finders” for “fingers”. finders lightly running down a spine It can appear to be a simple error or the work of the unconscious on the resources of language. … Continue reading
Key as poem
From The Observer’s Book of Furniture by John Woodforde, a bit of found poetry. It’s the key to the wood grains illustrated on the endpapers. And so for day 392 09.01.2008
Signs Signs Signs
Inspired by Words in the Wild at lexigraphi.ca here are some intriguing examples of Toronto signage and in once case graffiti. I like the name of the shop and the round gear-wheel motif of the Bikes on Wheels sign. Night … Continue reading
Reading the Index Finding Treasure
In these days of full text searching, the reading of indices is no longer an habitual activity. It is not however difficult to appreciate the indices prepared with the care and preserved in tomes such as The Book of Knowldge: … Continue reading
Rain
Janet Inksetter is closing shop after almost thirty years (27 for those counting). A last leisurely browse into Annex Books mixes chats about chestnut flour pattona and literary anecdotes about poets Robin Skelton and Susan Musgrave. All in a radio-like … Continue reading