July 2010
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“How the devil could one associate horror with mathematics?”
– John Buchan, ‘Space’
‘To imply that those currently at the top - the Warren Buffets and Roman Abramoviches of this world - are the very best, the nec plus ultra of humanity, is a kind of hate speech toward the species. Dignity demands that we refute it.’
Richard Seymour, The Meaning of David Cameron
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Seriously? This seems a little vague. ‘At...
“I am livid that as a girl who doesn’t attract men, I am constantly made to...”
– Virginie Despentes, King Kong Theory
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“Bourgeois culture is dying of a myth.”
– Christopher Caudwell, Studies in a Dying Culture
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‘Cragley’s home was bizarre not through a … mistake but because there had been no plans to follow at all. At some point … Cragley had read all the valley’s novels (most of them English Victorian, with James and his lust for the Europeans a freak and a fraud), and decided that people then, and only then, knew how to live. So he … moved to a hut which he...
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Housebreaking in fantasy worlds
‘[T]he viburnum sprig had enormous philosophical significance. It was “in excess” in our world. If I had taken a branch from any forest in America and brought it here, I would not have changed the number of branches on earth. But in bringing that sprig of viburnum from Saint Beregonne’s Lane I had made an intrinsic addition that could not have been made by all the...
A few points about, translations & interpretations of, & arguments with a standard exemplar of the stenchful & emetic.
Para 1: On Weaponised ‘Good Faith’. ‘Many US policymakers … genuinely felt … was a noble thing …’ &c. i) No evidence is adduced to support this contention. ii) The countercontention here - that many US policymakers...
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June 2010
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Among all books
From Neil Bell’s more-than-passingly strange Life Comes to Seathorpe (1946), an indispensible dissident paradigm for literary canonisation.
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“A pretty expensive one.”
“Oh, not that sort. Come over here.” Presently, when they stood beside a shelf on which were ranged about a dozen volumes, Ferris took one out, opened it, and said,...