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Public Library 23.8.10

Salvadore Dali and Disney’s Destino. There’s some great iconic surrealism in this animated short. Via Art History on tumblr Intensity of a plot. Guernica interview with Don DeLillo from 2007. Don talks Falling Man, terrorism and his writing process. Don DeLillo. William Wood writes: “Point Omega has the disheartening feel of having been written by [...]
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Public Library 26.5

“The Hollow Men” as hypertext. Eliot’s poem with clickable referencing. More evidence that Modernist literature was made to be hypertexts. Pound hyperpoems anybody? Art vs. Laundry. Is poetry, or art in general, really that important? Stephen Burt investigates. Via The Poetry Foundation An author risks his life in pursuit of fixers in football. Article about [...]
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Public Library 17.3

The David Foster Wallace Audio Project. DFW’s introductions are nervous and rambling. He begins, often, with an innocent joke. Some of the introductions are just like his writing: all encompassing, desperate to help you understand, for you to get a complete picture. Then he enters the writing and he is calm.  24/7 Relentless Careerism. “Now the path of the [...]
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