“It was the Nativity scene, with Mary and Joseph and a cow and a donkey on each side of the baby, who was spiked all over with rays like a golden porcupine.”
(Denton Welch, A Voice through a Cloud, p. 151)
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- 153. finale
- rather than flow-through
- who will love nothing but a sylph
- recapitulating duchamp
- this "other tradition"
- only the one way
- for we judge not, lest we be judged
- master of the hovering life
- 384.
- ll. 1. f., among the angel's / hierarchies:
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- vice interviews john calder
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- 3. collage, or, the splice of life:
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- machines for literature redux
- the poem as it is then typeset
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- giving the mind an existence outside itself
- design over time
- a chatterer and a thief
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- learning to see
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- to another city
- dualism
- intent / the morality of design
- left imperfect
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- two serpents
- to live without questions
- response to a request
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- the internet has always been there
- as wonderful as being a strain
- delany explains things
- the python that will devour it
- that everything is surface
- interviewer: what kind of action can you hope to take?
- the failure of surrealism
- a true likeness without a resemblance
- jealousy
- contra melville
- naming things
- and when we lose objects?
- clubs that would have you as members
- poem for ray johnson
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- freud’s got nothing on tutuola
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- pages
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- laced
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- the red robins
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- moravia interviewed
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- menu 14
- a story, predictably enough
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- the bible on architecture
- endless book to remember
- my favorite subway ads
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- effingham
- from the encyclopædia acephalica
- paper machine
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- (john cage’s “ryoanji” on the ipod)
- why not give a little chicken?
- descartes on urban planning
- color
- failure in america
- the economics of prestige
- thomas edison predicts abu ghraib
- against museums; difficulty
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- how to proceed in the arts
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- nero/frogs
- reminder
- the rose has teeth in the mouth of a beast
- fabre’s humility
- (the idea of proust inspecting baby vultures)
- haneke on freedom
- written by a pig.
- detail
- the time that remains
- and again
- on being wrong
- how to gather cinnamon
- from “life and its shadow: the art/life dichotomy”
- 5. hemulen
- start
- says madame blavatsky
- found epigraphs, cont’d.
- eagleton for [some other] day
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- the girl (ii)
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- as above . . .
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