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Commonplace pages, Jan. 18th--

Posted by Kip Manley on Jan 18, 2025

A few items of note, over the course of the last little while. There's Vajra Chandrasekera on allegory:

Patricia Lockwood on mysticism:

The cover of Critchley’s Mysticism, a face behind a pane of glass, smeared with condensation, and tracks drawn through the droplets, suggesting tears.

And Rich Puchalsky went and wrote a brief disquisition on “owr”:

Tinkerbelle, held aloft by her wings and spanked by an enormous hand, shaking loose a patterfall of pixie dust.

Work continues, but I’ll save deeper thoughts on that for the first of the month.

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