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Neill Duncan (see “for Neill” here): In a funny sort of way, the Primitive Art Group opened my horizons musically, but in other ways it made me narrow-minded. . . . We were doing this edgy music and that other stuff’s so straight. Everything else was shit. We had that attitude. We

e.e. cummings: It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my “poems” are competing. They are also competing with each other, with elephants, and with El Greco. Every time I read

Yes, it’s true. At last we have it. Not a policy from Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage (something new, something divided and something colonial), but, for this “unique and intoxicating mix that is [or has been] rooted in the past but [is] constantly evolving and surprising”, what the

Wright explored his own “dark landscape,” describing two experiences that lay behind the creation of the novel. The first–an encounter with the “strangely familiar,” an idea that recurs throughout the book–took place in Chicago, shortly before his grandmother’s death in 1934. … he read a book that “miraculously

Zelenskyy's adviser Mykhailo Podolyak claims them to be a fiction: “Putin doesn’t understand military stuff. He’s a guy that people come and show him some cartoon about how the missile will fly, how nobody will be able to shoot it down. He said the same thing

nothing I write can satisfy me today so I read some Breyten Breytenbach shut up Breyten Breytenbach shut up in Paris where the women chant life woman liberty and bare their breasts the life the woman the liberty the end cannot satisfy me neither can the beginning you are the