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Day 2 – part 1 & 2 – September 2 2024 – Istanbul: snaps from the hood

Hello Gin & Tonic (HK airport). and then we boarded … early … into the heat and confusion of this artfully retro-styled aircraft where the stewards show not the slightest of effeminate affectations as per the dos and don’ts in Turkey from my Ûdemy Learn Turkish in a Month language course.
Simon Taylor 07 Sep 2024

Day 1 – September 1 2024 – Hong Kong

Hello Hong Kong. It’s been 14 years! Hello Hong Kong. You are very steamy. It’s early. We are staying at the Eaton HK Workshop: it's like a scene from a dream    the architecture follows another logic cars like in a display showroom    beside the lifts There&
Simon Taylor 06 Sep 2024

from The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century by John Burnside, 2019—from Rilke to … Trump’s poem

Just below us, on a rocky outcrop, sits the Burgkirche of Raron, one of a series of extraordinary buildings (churches, town houses and daring bridges over terrifying precipices) designed by the gifted sixteenth-century architect Ulrich Ruffiner. On its own merits the church is well worth a visit, though it is
Simon Taylor 29 Aug 2024

Street Musicians (for Tassos Denegris) by John Ash

There must be mountains inside those clouds and the sea still exists where the port once was. A bitter rain attacks the last, Byzantine well-heads, and the custodian eyes you suspiciously as if you might steal that acanthus fragment or postcard of a saint— as if understanding were possession. The
Simon Taylor 28 Aug 2024

30 days to awaken the writer within …

… is a threat. Daniel Handler recommends the personal canon, not cannon. (“A cannon is a mounted weapon used for firing heavy ammunition, usually spherical projectiles. Canon refers to either a group of works in a particular area of study or art or a collection of religious rules.” source EasyBib, a
Simon Taylor 28 Aug 2024

After Utopia [great title, Judith N. Sklar’s]: The Decline of Political Faith, 1957, pub. date. gives us a lingering decline and utopia a long after

Shklar presents Johann Gottfried von Herder, the first Romantic: We know that we exist, and that God is, not because we think, but because our whole being tells us that it is so. We are directly and inevitably conscious of existence, just as we cannot even imagine nothingness. There can
Simon Taylor 01 Aug 2024

upon arrival

Asked to write a short intro for Avi Duckor-Jones, I found a column he wrote on the Affirm Press website just over a year ago for the publication of his novel Max. Called “The battle of living in duality,” it deals with the duality of being the son of a
Simon Taylor 25 Jul 2024

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