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when I ceased explaining and started doing & a day & a night

when I ceased explaining and started doing & a day & a night

. . . the happy discovery of a local supermarket with fresh produce, served by a man with a sideways head, his head resting on his right shoulder (who, after that initial encounter, greets me warmly, the second time doing a dance like the dwarf in Twin Peaks), canned, bottled, 0.0 beer
Simon Taylor 19 Oct 2025
a day I overdid & other explanations

a day I overdid & other explanations

. . . cats, a theme of Türkiye too, here less the public deities they are there, but fed, loved, never possessed. I have so far seen one dog, and there was a dead dog on the drive out to Ushaiqer, أشيقر. . . note the loop with the diaeresis, a very unusual sound to
Simon Taylor 18 Oct 2025
At Turaif and Al Muruj المروج وَ الطُّرَيْف: further explanations

At Turaif and Al Muruj المروج وَ الطُّرَيْف: further explanations

. . . it was Ethiopian, came in a small block of stone, cost noncompetitively @NZD5, but that was not all: this café, called Passion with a symbol for wheat, advertised itself as a bakery, we were hungry for breakfast bread (it might even have been the day I arrived, since I got
Simon Taylor 13 Oct 2025
explaining my circumstance

explaining my circumstance

. . .the King Abdullah Financial District, where the above is shot, with the collection of signature architectures, and before that the neighbourhood where I am at present, and before that Doha, the rain forest, and if you look there appears to be a bright-winged bird. . . then we did a tour of
Simon Taylor 12 Oct 2025
Minus workshop 9: speech as movement | language as perception

Minus workshop 9: speech as movement | language as perception

as I wrote in Minus Theatre workshop 8 this is to be a short report. Schematic even. Drawn from notes I have brought with me to Riyadh. * movement for primitive organisms, cilia and flagella, rolling, swimming— —is perception: single-celled organisms move in the outside world with the same parts as
Simon Taylor 05 Oct 2025
Minus workshop 8, part 1: speaking, dialogue or not, sarx, pneuma and psyche; & part 2, the elizabethan play

Minus workshop 8, part 1: speaking, dialogue or not, sarx, pneuma and psyche; & part 2, the elizabethan play

* dialogue progresses the action. At least in conventional theatre it does; and I am starting with dialogue because dialogue usually covers speaking, where there is more than one of them, roles in theatre. * there are two types of action: conscious and unconscious. It would be a mistake to consider the
Simon Taylor 05 Oct 2025
Minus workshop 7, part 2: gesture, with some notes on the transindividual, sarx, pneuma & logos

Minus workshop 7, part 2: gesture, with some notes on the transindividual, sarx, pneuma & logos

Ricky, Nick, Chen, Chenby, Mike, Alex, Rachel, through Ricky's recommendation, Ann, Kwan and Yuka from about 4.30: I talked too much but explained the notion of gesture, its double constraint, the one I impose by asking you to put the actor's gesture who leads the
Simon Taylor 20 Sep 2025

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