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lying in long grass

your father and I have decided we don’t believe there’s anything after death you don’t go anywhere there are no beautiful fields or singing angels there’s nothing you just stop given over two years ago with no room for argument this was a pronouncement typical of

exercise #1

poetry is a muscle what Leibniz would call an organ it is not an Eternal Thing or Idea although a single poem can last an eternity poetry is part of the body whether it is used or not

and then perhaps I should start writing about what I am doing, begin a conceptual staging of my web project, let me know if you would like to read about it here. Until I hear from you, dear visitor, some gleanings, scratchings, fork&plate

‘Style,’ said Evelyn Waugh, ‘is not just avoiding the cliché. It’s avoiding the place where you can feel the cliché is being avoided.’ – in David Hare, Obedience, Struggle & Revolt, Faber and Faber, London, 2005, p. 140 By engagement, I mean not so much an exposition, or a critique,

there you see I would go so far as to say that the web project I am engaged with reads with love, reads you, read …

“There are, you see, two ways of reading a book: you either see it as a box with something inside and start looking for what it signifies, and then if you’re even more perverse or depraved you set off after signifiers. And you treat the next book like a

ideas of novelty & privacy – which I cite because they speak to my web project which I have not really spoken of here about which feel free to contact me, yours affectionately

“First you have to know how to admire; you have to rediscover the problems he poses, his particular machinery. It is through admiration that you will come to genuine critique… You have to work your way back to those problems which an author of genius has posed, all the way

Happy 200th Birthday, Charles Dickens: some gorgeous Russian mermaids in honour of it being on the 7th of February 1812

everything about our camping holiday in Pataua, Treasure Island – it looks like The Island of Nose – including sacks, eggs, gulls, one cat, a cemetery, tradition, the future, and a traditional welcome after the future