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Another city better than this one.
Joseph Gandy, Sir John Soane‘s Study, 1822. The City by Constantine P. Cavafy You said: “I’ll go to another country, to another shore, Find another city better than this one. Whatever I try to do is...
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Classifying the Animals
Mark Dion, Bureau of the Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacy, 2005, Manchester Museum. Detail: Borges filing cabinet. Classifying the Animals (after some lines of Borges) by Robert Gray...
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dear f.
Jennifer Angus, A Terrible Beauty III: To Have and To Hold, 2007 (detail). (from the book of illusions) by Sjón reykjavík 11.03.’80 dear f. last night I dreamed you cut all your hair off and used it...
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Grants, beginnings and a suitcase full of notes.
Joseph Beuys, The Pack, 1969. At Thirty-three by Hans Magnus Enzensberger It was all so different from what she’d expected. Always those rusting Volkswagens. At one time she’d almost married a baker....
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Liverpool
Banksy mural, Berry Street, Liverpool. Epithets by Jamie McKendrick Toledo la rica, Salamanca la fuerte, León la bella, Oviedo la sacra, y Sevilla la grande. Liverpool the impoverished, the liverish,...
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The whole static safari.
Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris: the whole static safari. In the Natural History Museum Extract from the poem by Liviu Campanu (1932-1994, Bucharest) We hold hands (my thumb on her wrist...
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And other sordid details.
‘Whitie’, Teddy Bear, Margarete Steiff GmbH, c. 1907, V&A, London. Assemblage by Jason Guriel In a glass-faced box, I forced together four glass marbles (the sort whose sole point seemed to be to...
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Life in the Ocean’s Jewel Boxes
Philip Henry Gosse (1810-1888), illustration from Actinologia Britannica: A History of the British Sea-Anemones and Corals, 1860. Enigmas by Pablo Neruda You’ve asked me what the lobster is weaving...
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Blades of grass
Alexis Rockman, Blow Flies, 2007. into the wilderness by Albert Ostermaier mein freund wir wollen hinausgehen uns ins gras legen & zigaretten rauchen lass uns den nachmittag entzücken & die...
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Having a Coke with You by Frank O’Hara
Having a Coke with You is even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irún, Hendaye, Biarritz, Bayonne or being sick to my stomach on the Travesera de Gracia in Barcelona partly because in your orange...
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