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Ive often felt that toronto is a simulation, a movie ranch of a city; a strong gust of wind could take the buildings down (this impression isnt helped by the tyranny of façadism). Ive characterized it to friends as an airport terminal, a “non-place”, in marc auges words, with no relationship to any particular tradition or culture, so that “people are always, and never, at home”

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Yes. I think this protagonist's particular horror comes from finding it so, not even at its worst, but at its best and most substantial...

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Sep 17Liked by Paul Franz

And time in our camp is moving, as you’d anticipate it to.

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An intriguing, but to me mystifying comment. Say more?

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Sep 17Liked by Paul Franz

Do you really not know that Joanna Newsom has a song called “Anecdotes” on her album Divers?!?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkluRt3UA7E

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Evidently not! Many have tried to prosletizing me, but her work remains unknown to me--(again) evidently enough!

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Sep 18Liked by Paul Franz

Wow!

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There are still uncontacted tribes...

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I wish I could read this printed on paper, bound, a longer line for the eye tracing over these long, ever so rhythmic, ever so careful (precise, generous) sentences. Anecdotal… unskimmable

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You are too kind, Alice. Thank you very much.

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Whatever happened with the matriarch and the unsuitable young man?

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Guess you'll have to stay tuned.

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