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{ Monthly Archives } February 2008

The Library of Homunculus

The Origin of Species
The Birth of Tragedy
The Ascent of Man
The Subject of Tragedy
The Art of Telling
The Story of Art
The Art of Living
The Dehumanization of Art
The Concept of Mind
The Art of Argument
The Character of Mind
The Anatomy of Inquiry
The Identity of Man
The Moment of Proof
The Pursuit of Signs
The Sign of Three
The Thread of Life
The Loom of Language
The [...]

Standards

After you’ve gone
All the things you are
Come back to me
It’s almost like being in love
But beautiful

The Colonel’s Portentous Cat Unsays

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Special Collections Librarian Max Yela writes:
[The Colonel's Portentous Cat Unsays] is perhaps the most recent and remarkable of invisible books. It follows a long tradition of dream books and stories, from biblical citations of dream-state narratives, to the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and Shakespeare’s Mid-Summer Night’s Dream, to Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Eyes of a [...]

jazz that text

jazz that text
till it sings
till only singing
will diminish it
till ebb exposes that
which only flow has known
stones shells bones
posing as lasting things
memory’s moment knows no present
imagines it is as it had been
it’s this that’s that
scatting riffs best left unsung
till home
in stillness
that absence
this trope