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Men Behaving Badly?
I find it difficult to keep regular hours with Wordstall these last weeks, and wonder what’s stopping me. Men Behaving Badly? Ebola? ISIS? Perhaps I am forgetting to note what I can see. Anything worthy of note going on. Do I know how to see what is worthy of note? Is there anything that strikes…
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How long until sunrise?
Here we are, at least here I am – a week to go and I will be back in Florence. Count down . . . How long until sunrise? How long is a piece of string? About this long . . . Look here’s one end and here (somewhere here, where’s it gone) is (was…
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Ghosts and other animals
Writing is a form of presentation. A gathering of words, a collection of possible meanings, charged marks that contain the endeavour to form the future. What are you talking about, they say. “It is no accident that one of the co-founders of molecular biology, Francois Jacob, described the process of the experimental sciences as a…
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MA(R)X/FRE(U)D
A(R)S(E) SEEN FROM BELOW AND BEHIND: “Where is the thinking here? In the formula? In the vocabulary? In the operation that marries them?”
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Where Shall We Meet Next?
L’Eremo di Monte Siepe: Wordstall could meet here early in the new year – next January (say), as we seek to find our new axis mundi and point of balance. After all we seem to be facing eviction and need to look beyond our familiar meeting places. From Totnes to Tuscany? Monte Siepe is a…
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Anonymity Blues
A glimpse in the rear view mirror fills you with terror: the past is disappearing into a blank of anonymity. Attempting to avoid the void you drive faster: you will beat the beast, this slavering, bloody beast. Your determination wavers, you can feel its hot fetid breath on your neck. “Perec! Perec!” You hear the…
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Perec Perec
We often put pairs of words together, and repeat ourselves. Some of the pairs we would like to think of as opposites. Death is not life. Life is not death. And so on. Then we could say Life/Death is an antonym. But a little on maybe we want to say, “Perhaps Life/Death is a false…
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Anon rules ok!
‘Void’ you say, as you play with the dynamics of anonymity. ‘Perec! Perec!’ Is that a bird I can hear? And there is a middle aged man . . . Can’t do much with him! Is it TS Eliot at the age of 43 or perhaps 53? Or poor old BKS Iyengar dead and only…
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Anon rules ok!
‘Void’ you say, as you play with the dynamics of anonymity. ‘Perec! Perec!’ Is that a bird I can hear? And there is a middle aged man . . . Can’t do much with him! Is it TS Eliot at the age of 43 or perhaps 53? Or poor old BKS Iyengar dead and only…
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Map of the Ocean
“I am ready to take the stand”, the middle-aged man said in a gesture of willed objectivity which reminded me of the work of another writer, George Perec. Not Life A User’s Manual. No, nothing so large, I was being reminded of a minor, mostly forgotten piece called Espece d’espaces written by Perec in 1974.…
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Cruelty
A couple of days ago I finished reading A Girl Is a Half–formed Thing by Eimear McBride and a few minutes ago I finished reading Judith Butler’s review of Derrida’s The Death Penalty: Vol. 1. as I get through some of the backlog from recent issues of the LRB. Ummm I can hear you murmuring…
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Liberties After Being Robbed of Our Own
Outlaws crop up when you least expect them to. Here are positive signs for continuing with this ficto-documentary writing, and the reader can choose for themselves what to believe or disbelieve. Over this last weekend I keep missing a series of phone calls, probably about seven in all, from a man who I have never…
Categories (2024) are:
- ATELIER Work – about-creative-work (in all mediums: text-drawing-sounds-image etc)
- CLIMATE Action – indications-and-contra-indications
- DAWDLING – walking-pausing-to-wonder-wandering
- IN Conversation – companionship-and-connections
- LA Communita –participatory-collaborative-artivism
- OTHER than Human – animate-and-inanimate-terrestrial-kin
- PARANOID Readings – violence-and-fundamental-perversions
- POLITICAL Readings – mobilisations-affect-polarisations
- REPARATIVE Readings – inspiring-healing-restorative
- SHADOW Readings – speculative-and-not-yet-visible-thinking
- STYLE Readings – scales-and-familiarities
- TONITE at the Coliseum – live-experiences-performance
- YOGI (‘Not This-Not That’) – meditation-bhakti-consciousness
Different WORDSTALL Categories in the past supported the mainly experimental personal writing in posts. The previous list of Category headings was: Anti-gravity Surgery / Atelier / Catastrophe Games / Echo Effects / Exodus / Fundamental Perversions / Hitting the Potholes / Holy Fool-Hero / In Conversation / Old Men Traveling / On the Street / Out in the Wilderness / Over and Beyond / Tonite at the Coliseum. Some of these still persist or recur as Tag key-words.
The even earlier Category headings for the walkingtalkingwriting blog (2006-2012) have been forgotten, but can be explored if desired via the long tail of monthly posts for those years here.