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TEXT! - an introduction
literature, archives, material texts, culture, with varying degrees of first personness
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Preamble the churl’s banshee
One form of creativity-through-constraint practised by Jean Lescure and Raymond Queneau and those French writers who in the 1960s styled themselves…
Adam Smyth
May 17
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Cutting up Spenser and Shakespeare
A brief experiment in cutting up poetry. I wondered what would happen if I tried to patch together an Edmund Spenser poem using William Shakespeare’s…
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May 5
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Slicing the page: Christophe Leutbrewer and Raymond Queneau
If you are having trouble remembering your sins in seventeenth-century France – if you feel you need some kind of spiritual prompt – then you could do…
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Apr 22
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Concurrency
In an article called ‘Printers of the Mind’, published in 1969, the bibliographer D.F. McKenzie unraveled certain fundamental assumptions imagined and…
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Mar 31
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Library stamps
In a hands-on ritual that has now largely been replaced by the beep of a bar code reader, borrowing a library book for many decades involved the…
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Mar 4
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Place through time (where New Oxford Street meets Museum Street)
If you are a bibliophile in London in the second half of the nineteenth century – or if you are any kind of reader at all – it’s likely you spend a good…
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Feb 23
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Grangerising: exploding and ballooning books
In 2016 I bought a 1904 copy of Edinburgh and Its Story by the Scottish journalist and author Oliphant Smeaton. What interested me, apart from the…
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Feb 7
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