Resisting the urge to use a ‘KA-PUN’! …I’m so sorry.
Poetics of Silence I
Recently, I have been thinking about a deeper silence that dwells beneath things. This silence sits beneath conversations, beneath tragedies and natural disasters, beneath births…
More...Swedenborg’s Oven: Head number Three – Tincture of Belladonna
I’m still trying to get back to the 6th of April 1744 – Swedenborg’s 6th of April that is, the date of his first vision.…
More...The Attempt to Say Everything: Gustave Flaubert
Reading Colin Dray’s recent Vitalpoetics post got me thinking about Gustave Flaubert, firstly as a man whose rebellion against romanticism drove him to explore the…
More...From the web this week
Two related things on the development of the internet from the web this week – Don’t Save the Press by Žiga Turk:
Print, paper,
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More...Macondo or McOndo? What I think about when I think about [world] literature
I was thinking the other day about whether there is any point in demarcating the study of literature according to national borders – university departments…
More...Farming the Footnotes for Great Work
I’ve been revisiting The Tempest again (and truly, is there a better play, ever? okay, maybe Superman: The Musical) and I’ve discovered that my reading…
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