Moving

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I have been mending broken links, tidying up typos, and adding a bit of trim to entries as I migrate the blog to a new spot: https://bernev...

The Agon of Call and Response

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I remember it from the movie as a devastating truth-telling moment but on the page it seems to fall flat. Harold's speech to Michael in ...

Skipping and Slinging

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Neil Gaiman Forward to Shaun Tan The Singing Bones There are stories, honed by the retelling, simplified by the people who recorded them ...

Decidedly Dedicated

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for the family, related and unrelated, living and dead Joyce Nelson. Dedication to Battlefronts (Toronto: Coach House Press, 1977)....

Tension and the Cinematic Checklist

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1935 Movie Tale of Two Cities Just prior to the beginning of the dramatic action of the film, a written "Bibliography" is presen...

Affixed

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Natalie Zemon Davis. A Life of Learning Charles Homer Haskins Lecture for 1997. (American Council of Learned Societies, ACLS Occasional Pap...

Ever Ready To Converse

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In the Penguin Books Great Ideas series, Seneca On the Shortness of Life translated by C.D.N. Costa. You should rather suppose that those ...

Ever Green In the Archive

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From ad copy from the London Review of Books Spring is here, but the LRB, like cypress, pine, fir, cedar, spruce, hemlock, juniper, eucaly...

entaille

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Tugging at my reading of this aphorism is the title of a book of interviews with Michel Foucault: Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and O...

fragile tissue of time

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Parenthesis 31 The Journal of The Fine Press Book Association "First Principles, Second Thoughts and Final Answers" Robert Brin...