DFW (1962-2008) |
So but anyhow... I just heard that David Foster Wallace hanged himself. This was Friday, so there are plenty of obuituaries, collected at The Howling Fantods.com. Most are very short, which seems resp...
Posted by on Sun, 14 Sep 2008 10:23:00 GMT |
Fridays fritterings: "Script for an exorcism" |
"You who are afraid of sunlight
"You who hide in fire
"You with the long nails
"You who hide among leaves
"You with the mane of an animal
"You who cannot set foot in the holy places
"You with the bl...
Posted by on Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:52:00 GMT |
Wednesdays witterings: "The Homunculus" |
The Homunculus
An early memory: the homunculus is crawling on the floor of the study, crawling toward the bookshelves perhaps, for books to chew on, crawling over well-waxed (albeit warped) boards. T...
Posted by on Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:50:00 GMT |
Case 33 |
"&&&I was looking down at my bare feet in the thin old-man-hair grass growing from cracked and dusty old-man-skin earth. I was standing beside a sort of trench, less than a metre deep. On the other si...
Posted by on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:20:00 GMT |
Miscellaneous Cases of Possession |
When I think of the cases we've had to pass up, the phrase that springs to mind is the Banality of Evil& because Possession isn't something from the past, from the immigrant ghettoes, from the fringes...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:19:00 GMT |
excerpt from the novel |
The Catalogues
It seemed we were always a day behind, an hour late
Such is the nature of Possessions
We saw the aftermath, if you can call it that; the fallout
We saw the overflowing ashtrays; each c...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:47:00 GMT |
Drawing Restraint 9, dir. Matthew Barney |
Drawing Restraint 9 (2005; UK Premier 20th Sept. 2007), dir. Matthew Barney
Just two years into the 21st century, word got out that we already had our own "Waste Land" and, this time round, the mytho...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 07:58:00 GMT |
Jerome Rothenberg comes to the UK |
Jerome Rothenberg comes to the UK. The venue was a basement in Hoxton, beneath the Foundry, the whole place covered floor to ceiling in graffiti, and full of junk sculptures. The general vibe is ...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 20:52:00 GMT |
The Old Order |
In hindsight, I don't think the process would have worked in an ordinary school.
What I know about "ordinary schools" could be written on the back of a postage stamp how long is that expression sti...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 13:53:00 GMT |
Vanishing Ratios: an ending |
This is how the ending goes: as the blood supply to the outermost regions of your brain shut down, your autonomic system will collapse; no more neural signals will be coming in from your eyes and ears...
Posted by on Thu, 31 May 2007 15:51:00 GMT |
