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Monday, July 30, 2007

George Benjamin: Into the Little Hill

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Last week I was perfectly reconciled to my role as bathgiver & putter-of-children-to-bed while J. worked her way thru a formidable progr...
Tuesday, July 24, 2007

spaceholder

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No, I'm not really posting – for one thing, I'm stealing somebody's wireless right now, & I'm confined to Safari, which ...
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Saturday, July 14, 2007

en attendant

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Points northeast beckon – tho, thanks to Delta Airlines, they're beckoning some two hours later than originally planned. Happily, their ...
Thursday, July 12, 2007

the glooms

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It’s worth checking out the comments box of a recent post on Incertus , a collective blog run by four of my colleagues at Our University. T...
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unsystematic

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“The ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens returned had thirty oars, and was preserved by the Athenians down even to the time of Deme...
Friday, July 06, 2007

sore

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Oh yes, lots of busyness within and outwith the household this past week, & oddly not moved to blog much. Which is okay, since my synaps...
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Thursday, June 28, 2007

Available Now!

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For those of you ( Jessica among others) who want instant gratification – or at least as instant as 5-months-in-advance gratification can b...
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Back

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The latest blog hiatus stems from a week-long trip to God’s Country (the Old Homestead) – an alright “vacation,” so to speak, tho I’ll be cl...
Thursday, June 14, 2007

Index, relief at completion of

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One begins with the notion of the ideal index, the key to all the book’s mythologies, the list that is itself a re-visioning of the book, a ...
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Michael Hamburger (1924–2007)

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Since no-one in the alt-poetry world has to my knowledge noted his passing, I’ll say a few things on behalf of the fine English poet Michael...
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Our University on the blogosphere!

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From the midst of a sea of letters & numbers, all to sorted into the right order: once again, Our University is in the news, and Univer...
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Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Indexing, aesthetics of

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Various views of the index: The Chicago Manual stance, in which the index is the indispensible tool for finding what you want to find, for ...
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Monday, June 04, 2007

Turkish delight / various

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So we’re back from a long weekend away – the less said the better, a combination of great fun & some highly irritating moments & mor...
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Thursday, May 31, 2007

hurriedly

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We leave tomorrow for a long weekend of "holiday," which as every parent of preschoolers knows involves much more labor than any t...
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Sunday, May 27, 2007

Michael Moorcock: The Brothel in Rosenstrasse

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Somewhere in the sixties (the number, not the decade) I lose count of how many Michael Moorcock novels I’ve read. Most of them I consumed at...
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Allen Ginsberg / guitar picks

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Eric, who’s vowed that he won’t let Say Something Wonderful die, has posted a lovely little video of Allen Ginsberg singing “Father Death B...
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Friday, May 25, 2007

Morerotica; dyspeptic Latta; Greenblatt's Shax

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That last entry looks a bit cranky, I guess, or a bit – as I think I said – ‘self-interested.’ But ‘erotic,’ as it’s defined on the dictiona...
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Sunday, May 20, 2007

Alan Davies: Rave

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Blurbage: “The erotic works of Alan Davies hold a unique place in contemporary literature. They do not focus on the fantasy of sex, underwea...
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Daphne Gottlieb / Stephen Greenblatt / Garry Wills

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Daphne Gottlieb, Final Girl (Soft Skull, 2003): "Final girl” theory, adumbrated by Jane Dark’s mum Carol Clover – the last woman left ...
Wednesday, May 16, 2007

summer stupor

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Almost a week & a half into my own summer vacation, what for way too many of my colleagues is the first summer term – & aside from a...
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