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  • “Why Go On?”: Cezanne, poker, and a new “Next Line, Please” post

    July 7, 2025

    Why go on? Haven’t we all asked ourselves this question at one time or another? Perhaps we are suffering from an illness, an infirmity, a condition that will not get better; perhaps a mate…

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  • “This Be The Verse” [by Philip Larkin]

    July 7, 2025

    This Be The Verse They fuck you up, your mum and dad.       They may not mean to, but they do.   They fill you with the faults they had    And add some extra, just for you.…

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  • Lynne Dreyer: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    July 6, 2025

                            _______________________________________ Down monkey. Monkey down Go girl and get, he ices and is rowdy. The lamp still hangs dirty and massive. Eat…

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  • “Dancer and Dance” [by Jim Cummins]

    July 4, 2025

    Dancer and Dance When he was young, he thought his narcissismwas anguish; but it was just narcissism.Everyone’s in some kind of anguish or other—or do the Protestants merely suffer?Protestants buy things; it helps the…

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  • Malcolm Bradbury on Paul de Man and “Signs of the Times”

    July 4, 2025

    The New York Times Book Review February 24, 1991 The Scholar Who Misread History By MALCOLM BRADBURY [pictured left]   SIGNS OF THE TIMESDeconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man.By David Lehman. ate in…

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  • “Ariodante”: a cinematic live performance experience from Frédéric Savoir [By Tracy Danison]

    July 4, 2025

    The cast of Les Arts Florissants from ”Ariodante”, the film by Frédéric Savoir. Photo © Amazing Digital Studios In what is, as far as I am concerned, a first, the filmmaker Frédéric Savoir has managed to…

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