I want to tell you about three things. “Agrippa was not unfamiliar with inns; on the contrary, he frequented them willingly and a few small stones were sufficient to pay his bills because, as Del Rio says, he gave them the appearance of good money in the eyes of the landlord. This time, however, he [...]
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Alabama! I’m much, much younger than old Laura Carroll, that’s for sure. Clancy bought me a copy of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, which I’m enjoying. Clancy also threw stones across the Tennessee River, several hundred yards—what an arm!—and we were nearly attacked by a piebald horse-cow and doe. I also played one of those [...]
Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media. MIT, 2001. “In this respect the computer fulfills the promise of cinema as a visual Esperanto” (xv, 78). I wonder here, and in the later comments about the universality of the interface, about the distinction between a recovered universal language and an artificial one. Esperanto invokes questions of [...]
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Professor Royce remarks that my opinion that differentials may quite logically be considered as true infinitesimals, if we like, is shared by no “mathematicians outside of Italy.” As a logician, I am more comforted by corroboration in the clear mental atmosphere of Italy than I could be by any seconding from a tobacco-clouded and bemused [...]
Brown, Nicholas. Utopian Generations: The Political Horizon of Twentieth-Century Literature. Princeton, 2005. Sample chapter. Am particularly curious about the chapter on The Childermass and will report back.
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I haven’t, by any means, read all of the secondary literature on Banville’s Book of Evidence, but the reviews and occasional critical pieces I have looked at have not, I think, completely addressed the significance of Haslet’s penultimate remarks. Canon-Roger’s article in European Journal of English Studies was especially good on the painting, I thought. [...]
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