A Placid Island of Ignorance

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03 May 2004 20:35 #

pseudopodium links to a paper about early American magazines and muses about their proto-bloglike character ... the Bodleian Library's recent decanting (noted by Languagehat) of a mass of mid-19th C. periodicals onto the web includes a run of Notes and Queries, which seems somewhat more proto-listservian: a stream of obscure questions after trivia, answered more-or-less autoritatively or crankily. I haven't found the answer to this one yet:

Whose crest is a skull with a butterfly on it, with this motto, Que sais-je?

but I sure wish it were mine.

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From Within the Solar Cave
Mnortham
Marionette Karma
Magic
Neptune’s Daughter
Soothsayer
Schleimer K
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Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts after Cage (A “Minor” History)
Branden W. Joseph
The Fiend in Human
John MacLachlan Gray
Jim: The Author's Self-Centered Memoir on the Great Jim Brown
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No Longer Human
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What Happened to Art History
James Elkins

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Ruhr
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Le petit soldat
Jean-Luc Godard
Confortorio
Paolo Benvenuti
The Orchid
Samuel R. Delany
The War is Over
Alain Resnais

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I’m not “saying something.” I’m allowing “something” to have a voice, an independent existence (an existence independent of me).

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