“how to read: a spell; a lullaby or nursery rhyme; a myth (primitive, classical); a fable; a Buddhist legend; a chanson de geste …”

wowsers. everyone has been raving about this book for three years and i've never heard of it. ok. weird?!

Doris Salcedo

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Peter Schjeldahl is dead

Historicus Steije Hofhuis past in zijn proefschrift begrippen uit de evolutietheorie toe op de heksenvervolging.

Interesting piece from the New Yorker about John Barker and his research into 'psychiatric orchids' in the UK in the 60s.

Timothy Morton interviewed by Thiago Pinho interviews about experience and reality.

‘Hij wilde zo graag zijn oude leven terug.’

Bataille believed that God is revealed through obscenity or destruction, a “deadly, or simply painful and abject medium.” archived 27 Aug 2019

The man who suggested Dave Dee and the Bostons change their name to Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich and composed the music for RD Laing's record Life and Death is dead. archived 23 Jul 2022

i wonder if this would still work. it's pretty much exactly what it feels like to fly to australia in economy so...

found it!!

"Taking your voice back in after it has left your body is a lot like drinking your own saliva from a glass."

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i never had much time for the tom tom club forty years ago (i was firmly in the david byrne camp) but seeing them do these lovely acoustic versions of dr.wordsworth and genius of love made me very happy.