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The Pursuit of Anonymity

4 April, 2011 от · 3 comments

Peter Cowlam Photo: PinkMoose I drove, in leaden convoy, On highways built Through the thinning ambers of autumn, In a falling of leaves fake in its evocation. Then stumbled, on rented properties Masquerading as exotica, and flamed By the varnishes of Eden.

Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

14 February, 2011 от · 26 comments

Peter Cowlam Photo: Wonderlane ‘I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia.’ Jorge Luis Borges Berkeley, who was Bishop of Cloyne in 1734, denied the existence of matter in a reply to Locke (1632–1704), whose conception of the universe was Newtonian and mechanistic, a place where material bodies […]