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26 Apr 2025

Reflections on a Fat Sand Rat

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Top: photo of a fat sand rat by fmeijerdd (2023)  on deviantart.com   Bottom: Joan Miró: Le Rat des Sables (1975)  Aquatint in colours on A...
18 Apr 2025

Notes on Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts (Part 2: pp. 75-180)

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Photo of Maggie Nelson by Jarrett Eakins (2013)  alongside the cover of her book The Argonauts    (Graywolf Press, 2015)     Note: this post...
17 Apr 2025

Notes on Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts (Part 1: pp. 1-74)

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Cover of the Melville House edition  (2016) [a]     I've said it before, but it's worth repeating: Maggie Nelson is one of those ver...
9 Sept 2024

Can a Writer Ever Overshare? On Maggie Nelson's Self-Exposure

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Author Maggie Nelson: skilled in the art of making  the personal and the private public and political     I.    Someone recently asked me t...
7 Sept 2024

My Naked Nakedness is Positive Atrociousness: Notes on The Deadman (1989)

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  Jennifer Montgomery as Marie in The Deadman   (dir. Peggy Ahwesh and Keith Sanborn, 1989)   "When Edouard fell back dead an emptines...
5 Sept 2024

Heathen, Hedonistic, and Horny: Notes on Maggie Nelson's Bluets (2009) - Part 1: Propositions 1-120

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  Jonathan Cape (2017)     I.    As long-time readers of Torpedo the Ark will know, whilst, as a nihilist, my default position is always pai...

Heathen, Hedonistic, and Horny: Notes on Maggie Nelson's Bluets (2009) - Part 2: Propositions 121-240

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Joan Mitchell: Les Bluets (1973)  Oil on canvas (281 x 580 cm) [f]     NB: part one of this post (reflecting on selected propositions from ...
28 Aug 2024

On Board the Ship of Theseus With Melissa Mesku

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Melissa Mesku and the  Ship of Theseus     I.    A correspondent who knows her Greek mythology (and her French literary theory) writes:   I...