“This [lack of recognition in the New Zealand arts curriculum of pakeha arts as localised and acculturated] is regrettable but hardly surprising and it is actually quite serious. The lack of a fundamental pakeha groundedness in pakeha identity, history and culture is a far greater problem for the shaping of

Each writer creates his precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future. – Jorge Luis Borges

for Badiou as for Heidegger, poetry is the experience/articulation of the limits of the potency of language, of the limits of what we can force through and with language. – Slavoj Zizek (OwB, p. 107)

Part way through Economy of the Unlost, Anne Carson imagines a Greek flaneur rusticating in the fifth century B.C. who stops to read an epitaph carved in stone, a “talking stone.” Since lapidary inscriptions of the period generally left no spaces between words, the passerby, both for the practical

Who would they be these characters asked for in the post below, an island narrative, if not exactly those projections who are not projections of ourselves? as Robert David MacDonald has Diaghilev say in Chinchilla, Seen as they should be seen, under arc-lamps; objects of a desire they master out