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insular discovery of freedom . . . {illus. Susan Hauptman} .

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

excerpt from Daniel Handler’s And Then? And Then? What Else? (2024), fuck blaming, fuck forgiving, fuck cancelling and its moral predation on literature: & the company we have when alone with a book

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

1 actor in search of direction, a pipeline on a pillar, pouring soft power to amplify creativity in “the many countries that now form NZ’s multicultural society”

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

excerpts from Writers and Missionaries, 2023, by Adam Shatz, on Richard Wright, strange order: . . . & others, ローラン・バルタース and the “risk” of universality

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

орешники труднo изыскать: a text collage & the hazelnut trees are falling

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

red song [for Breyten Breytenbach]

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

“He suddenly turns on her, devours her, bringing down the whole system.” — Catherine Keller & — the perennial production of the cause of its downfall from the conditions which produced the state form

who does? the violent man-emperor who is? that for whom the merchants weep . . . in the porno of the human condition, the market where it is traded as commodity . . . John lists 29 luxury products of Roman world trade from gold, wine, olive oil — to slaves. If the beast signifies imperialist politics,