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Chronicels of Infection • • • Written Futility [02March2011]

Posted on 2011/03/03 by tmabona

One should be able to write despite everything. What is everything? Dreadful, mind-numbing fatigue, poverty, an absence of a computer and a keyboard [think stylo and notepad], poverty, the ability to remember what one was writing on earlier and did … Continue reading →

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DFW, Bellow, Pessoa, etc. [EndJan2011, post no.200]

Posted on 2011/01/31 by tmabona

In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.  ~ Stéphane Mallarmé   [download this blog post as pdf here EndJan2011_DFW_Bllrd_Pessoa] I’m reading early David Foster Wallace … Continue reading →

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2010 – rememberances of a year gone by

Posted on 2011/01/02 by tmabona

The past is never dead, it is not even past.  ~ William Faulkner By late December these phrases and all their variations become a staple «Oh, how quickly the year has passed», «I can’t believe the year is almost over … Continue reading →

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The P versus the E [part 2]

Posted on 2010/12/19 by tmabona

More generally, the e-ink screen by the moniker of Pearl is agreeably clutter-free. Unlike the screens of handhelds or laptops it does not aspire to display every possible piece of information simultaneously nor does it have the computing power to … Continue reading →

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[Una]Musings from the depths of the heat of JULY

Posted on 2010/07/25 by tmabona

Who was sitting there in the idiot box today? Relaxed, decked out in West African raiment, in a bandana to finish off all bandanas, smiling, calmly composed and supposedly glimpsing snatches of future. Who? Mama Ndjaye and Dadyou. Two middle-aged, … Continue reading →

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