Category Archives: noted
lugubrious letters
“She and Cook used to write the most lugubrious letters to each other about the unpleasantness of sunrises met suddenly. Sunrises were, they contended, alright when approached slowly from the night before, but when faced abruptly from the same morning they were awful.”
(Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, p. 820)
possible pessoa
In Fascicle, a translation by Chris Daniels of C. Pacheco’s “Beyond Another Ocean”. The poem, from 1917, dedicated to Pessoa’s heteronym Alberto Caeiro; in an interview with Kent Johnson in Jacket, Daniels suggests that Pessoa is the author.
(Interestingly: all of Pessoa went into the public domain on 1 January 2006. Also: the Pessoa entry in the wikipedia is shockingly good.)
(Also in the current issue of Jacket: a couple of pieces on Gilbert Sorrentino.)
everything was broken, again.
But: it seems like it works now.
In the interim: an if:book post on looking at books in Paris.
Also: some Circumference 4 is online. Even in Beijing.
the form of the poem/the form of the novel
randomly
- Skynoise tribute to Nam June Paik (noted by Jace Clayton).
- Thomas Jones on shipping containers at the LRB (also Theo Tait on Houellebecq).
- George Legrady on Daniel Spoerri (among other things), and a partial image-map version of Spoerri’s Anecdoted Topography of Chance (looks to be based on the Atlas Press edition).
(also)
- Aviva Shemesh on Manderlay.
two bad posts on if:book
the problem with blogs / nam june paik
A quick post on if:book on why blogs are terrible things.
Rest in peace, Nam June Paik.
noted: proust, quotation marks
There’s a nice post at The Valve which nicely gets at how deeply weird Proust gets w/r/t jealousy towards the end of the book.
And a nice post at pas au-delà on the connotations of punctuation. There’s a fine discursion on this (more precisely, what it means to emphasize things in the German style, by increasing letterspace in the emphasized word) towards the end of Agamben’s The Time That Remains. And there was another one recently about dashes – where was that?