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more of the wit and wisdom of young Key: “We don’t have enough women in our caucus, so we’ve had to start cross-dressing”

Here they are old boys, the National caucus: – image courtesy, The Standard, original here
Simon Taylor 21 Oct 2008

inappropriate immoderated inetiquette: love on -empyre-

Completely detracked: I am rejected, bounced, by -empyre-! And back here, on the rebound, read on: [-empyre-] October 2008, love on -empyre- began thusly: ‘love’ “Oh my friends, there is no friend…” Jacques Derrida, quoting Montaigne, quoting Aristotle…in his treatise on friendship. “There are no equals, only rivals…” Constantine
Simon Taylor 21 Oct 2008

to stretch to fold to twist – it

Deleuze holds that structural interpretation is both creative and apodictic. On the one hand, it is creative insofar as the interpretative work always depends upon a fundamental decision or risk surrounding what sorts of variations the structure of the text must undergo. Will I stretch it, fold it, or twist
Simon Taylor 21 Oct 2008

Dan Eldon

“only THE dead have seen the end OF war” – Plato,* quoted by Dan Eldon, who he was here … *attribution unverified, likelier George Santayana (see here)
Simon Taylor 20 Oct 2008

Preparations for Transport continues… (for preceding parts, see page under Not That Beautiful, opposite)

The next days followed quickly and without major variation, except they got shorter. Tolerances to this phase of the treatment apparently decreased over time, our days ending earlier and earlier. By three o’clock on the fourth day immobile figures on mats outnumbered those who were moving. There were squeaks
Simon Taylor 20 Oct 2008

“terrorized in my bed with Artaud fast asleep” cf. I ache in the places where i used to play, of Leonard Cohen

and the late discovery of the Artaudian ghosting… (Leonard Cohen singing “Tower of Song” here.)
Simon Taylor 19 Oct 2008

Tel Quel/Artaud: les risques enormes et les experiences aesthetiques limites + glossolalie politique; cf. my mother’s paranoia was politically inspired, Ghetto Life 101

it takes extremely fragile and extremely solid people to risk and even gain from the encounter with madness without succumbing or being taken by it to destruction and death (here’s the link for reference to Ghetto Life 101, the radio diary of LeAlan Jones, then thirteen, and Lloyd Newman,
Simon Taylor 19 Oct 2008

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