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Category: How To

  • Three ways to deal with an apocalypse

    Morning after the Flood  1928 From Carol Jacobs’s “Playing Jane Campion’s Piano: Politically” (1994): A Catholic priest, a Protestant minister, and a rabbi were walking along the beach together when a great angel with diaphanous wings approached them. He announced an apocalypse near at hand, telling them of…

  • Two ways to consider clouds

    Edinburgh, May 2011 ––ARIEL.All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I comeTo answer thy best pleasure; be’t to fly,To swim, to dive into the fire, to rideOn the curl’d clouds; to thy strong bidding taskAriel and all his quality. …..…

  • Ways of walking through a wood

    – Re-reading Eddie’s poem “Whose Woods These Are”, I am reminded of what Umberto Eco says in Six Walks in the Fictional Woods:1 There are two ways of walking through a wood. The first is to try one or several…

  • "How to Open at Will the Window onto the Most Beautiful Landscapes in the World and Elsewhere"?

    Drawing for The Exquisite Corpse by Victor Brauner, André Breton, Jacques Hérold and Yves Tanguy, 1935. HOW TO OPEN AT WILL THE WINDOW ONTO THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LANDSCAPES IN THE WORLD AND ELSEWHERE With a large brush spread black gouache,…