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on the mimetic creation of another form of expression or, translation and self-consciousness in art: Damian Lanigan’s novel The Ghost Variations

The name has a further meaning, you see. It’s not about the narrator being haunted. It’s not about that Schumann piece, written at the dictation of angels, a yutbe clip appears below. It’s about an altogether other dictation, no less angelic but, in this case, the angels
Simon Taylor 30 Apr 2023

three “wave films” – first film genre

These three reference films were found while researching the seventh in a series of film lectures I gave in 2022 at AUT. Transcripts are here. It’s Jordan Schonig’s contention that the “wave films” constituted the first genre in cinema. [source]
Simon Taylor 26 Apr 2023

Georgi Gospodinov, bulgarian cosmonaut, cosmopilot tells us what literature can. Not where

While I was writing the book [The Physics of Sorrow] and wondered where this sadness was draining from, it had flooded all over Europe and, in a sense, all over the world. As a writer, I know that the long accumulated sorrow, the concealed sorrow is a dangerous thing ready
Simon Taylor 26 Apr 2023

αποίησις: on the alpha privativum

Simon Taylor 18 Apr 2023

SQUIB No.3 ~ found poetry on a ripped-page bookmark, keeping place in the endnotes {illustr. Bozzetto & Ravel}

a protein that doesn't seek the                         features limelight. Yet is content to work perfectly in tandem with them, snuggled right up close in fact, embracing the heat, and trans- forming into a velvety cascade of yum. Because no matter how delicious they are, and what great sources of
Simon Taylor 15 Apr 2023

another squib of a thing: Bruno Schulz, shot and killed during his lifetime, walking home with a loaf of bread

. he published two collections of short stories - Cinnamon Shops and The Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass - during his lifetime Schulz was shot and killed by a German Gestapo officer in 1942, whilst walking home with a loaf of bread. Much of his writing, including his final,
Simon Taylor 15 Apr 2023

a squib of a thing: Port Maggie Smith launches You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir

— source: https://bookmarks.reviews/reviews/you-could-make-this-place-beautiful-a-memoir/
Simon Taylor 14 Apr 2023

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