Do You Know the San Man?
In Paul Valéry’s Eupalinos; or The Architect, Socrates is walking alone on the
beach. He stumbles upon an obscure object, polished and white. He can’t figure
out what it is or
Zach Terrell
Zach Terrell is a writer and teacher living in New York City.
Quicklink Friday | 8.16.13
Flatland [http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/flatland/]
“Do artists and curators need to be included in physical exhibition spaces in
order to create income-generating reputations, or could their presence on a
particular curated website
Quicklink Friday | 8.9.13
Epistemology of Lists [http://www.thestate.ae/epistemology-of-lists/]
“I’ve come to think of the list as a particular epistemology, a way of thinking
with unique qualities.”
Adam Rothstein, The State
O.K.
What Makes a Good Book
For those of us who tend to read the same sort of stuff over and over again, I
give you Marcel Proust [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Proust] on what
makes a
De-Privatizing Poetry
A great run-on sentence from one W. B. Yeats
[http://www.amazon.com/Essays-Introductions-William-Butler-Yeats/dp/0020556101]
encouraging us to think of the reading of poetry not only as a solemn, pious
activity but