Sociable Serviceable
Australian writer, Gay Bilson, who in introducing a section of Plenty: Digressions on Food quotes Octavio Paz. Octavio Paz, in an essay in his collection Convergences, wrote about ‘seeing and using’....
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In the one interview collected in Deep Sightings & Rescue Missions Toni Cade Bambara offers up a wonderful portrait of Langston Hughes and his “violations” of the rules at the library. First he...
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“By the River Cousin” in Death by Pad Thai and Other Unforgettable Meals ed. by Douglas Bauer. Claire Messud doesn’t remember the details of the food served (it was good) but she does recall with...
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There is a passage in Allen S. Weiss Phantasmic Radio which somehow makes me think of a typology of human communicative behaviour. It is for me very suggestive. In the passage from the preface to his...
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Robert Haas ends “Songs to Survive the Summer” which itself ends Praise with the following set of verses: all things lustered by the steady thoughtlessness of human use. Through the polish of use the...
View ArticleTrauma Truce
Trauma Truce From a letter to a young scholar. Menachem, I was rereading a preface by Adrienne Rich. The preface is collected in On Lies, Secrets and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978. The preface is...
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Good design and the economy of sharing. Whitewall Magazine. “Jasper Morrison: The Minimalist” WW:Why do you think design should be democratic? JM:The best atmosphere and the most beauty can be found in...
View ArticleBiopolitics of the Quotidian
From the 1990s, a message about Rich, Weil and trauma writing. Menachem, I was rereading a preface by Adrienne Rich. The preface is collected in On Lies, Secrets and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978....
View ArticleLike Elegance in Mathematics
A short accessible piece by Joe Morgan on the question of whether to teach coding to children has appeared in Slate. One of its themes is about cultivating an appreciation for quality. Of course,...
View ArticleFrom Fear of Missing Out to Being Present
I like this direct attack. Puncturing the ballon with flair. Here’s an insight that I’ve had about success: You can’t be successful at everything. We hear a lot of talk about work-life balance....
View ArticleCooking or Games of Stage & Set
Via Naomi Duguid http://naomiduguid.com/twitter/ Nigella Lawson “Home Cooking Can Be a Feminist Act” https://www.lennyletter.com/story/nigella-lawson-home-cooking-can-be-a-feminist-act Real cooking is...
View ArticleThe Rituals of the Evening
I thought sundowning was a synonym for winding down. Actually it refers to the agitation of Alzheimer’s patients at the end of the day as their environment shifts. My take on the term to refer to...
View ArticleThe Minutiae of Contradictions
Heather Thomas The Greek Vegetarian Cookbook from the introduction from not dwelling on detail to lavish praise for noticing particulars… Greeks rarely eat alone, and it’s natural for friends to gather...
View ArticleEat Me Drink Me
Michael Pollan Food Rules # 36 < that piece after the hashtag is a strawberry Don’t eat breakfast cereals that change the color of the milk. So this might mean — don’t eat milk with your cereal (eat...
View ArticleCited for UnSpeakable Speech Acts
Juvrianto Chrissunday Jakob, English Lecturer, An English Enthusiast and Coffee Lover (https://medium.com/@markriand) < I learnt today about https://medium.com (a modest payment to view the articles...
View ArticleTrolling the Troll
I keep stumbling across references to the President of the United States in the Apple Dictionary (A lexicographer’s gem) : “comity” (Definition #2) [mass noun] courtesy and considerate behaviour...
View ArticleSocial Reproduction and Revolution
David Chariandy to his daughter Always remember, dearest daughter, that in the most meaningful sense, slavery was conquered not by laws and grand strokes of pens but through the heroism of Black people...
View Articlequasi mise en abyme
Joanne Fluke Strawberry Shortcake Murder It is not quite writing about this writing but it is about writing… Hannah sat down at the white Formica table she’d found at the thrift shop and reached for...
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