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Visited countries
I kind of liked this… simple enough; and graphics are always fun: Fiddled with it a bit; countries where I’ve actually lived (had a home): And, because Europe is interesting to me, and complicated, one for just that ‘continent’ – which incidentally emphasizes the peculiar accidents that have led to me never being inside the…
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Anti-Goethe
Reading, for fun (yes, I should be editing those articles instead), between sneezes (I still have a cold), Beerbohm’s wonderful essay ‘Quia imperfectum’ (1918) from And Even Now. Far funnier and more charming than one would expect, given the topic – which purports at first to be unfinished artworks, but which ends up being Goethe.…
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Interspersed
Overlapping experiences: • have had a cold for three days, groggy and sniffling (sniveling? – that always seemed to be a different sound of course); every once in a while my face crinkles up, I mumble ‘damn’, and sneeze to one side or the other. • the weather is gray and increasingly wintry, but •…
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Dream transformation
A dream, wherein a lesbian relationship which is undergoing changes has been transferred to someone else in my life (I won’t say more, as it would be embarrassing for the parties involved – it has, after all, nothing to do with the people who inhabit the waking world). I ask the older woman about the…
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Blogästhetik
What is the impact of blogging on aesthetic production? A long phone conversation with Joyce in Stuttgart – a dear friend who has her own vlog, and is engaged in theoretical/practical work on digital culture – led to some of the following: (a) A significant part of the blogsphere is admittedly sophisticated and self-regarding, with…
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Truth in labeling
I wonder if it would be appropriate to classify blog entries in terms of… the seven deadly sins? Anger, sloth, gluttony, and so on. No, I think mine would need to be somewhat different – after all I wasn’t brought up Catholic: let’s try a few – rage or maybe petulance, inertia, envy, touchiness, acquisitiveness,…
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Paul Attinello 