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from internet archive The world is not only hard to define, the world is hard to quantify. While the hardness itself is not of any practical measure, but of difficulty. A difficulty of perception, entwined as it is with appearances. So the world appears to us often more like the sky than the earth, a ground more like the moon than…

So I write about worlds, worlding, worldmaking, worldbuilding, the world, a world. How do other people use the word? Ulay is a hard put upon performance artist with a career, or should I say, now, platform, no one is going anywheres these days, which is based in shadowing a successful New York eurotrash dominatrix from the Balkans. Ulay ist sein…

In the negative gist I riffed on the context for page 212, of the 2017 biography of Mary Douglas, which lists the misunderstandings people have of her work. So here I will try to put down a positve version, if not a definition. It will be based on my reading of her work, which is by no means complete. When…

In the review of Robert Ardrey's The Territorial Imperative I cover my discovery of his book on my shelves. Here I wish to explore the implications, by which I think I mean metaphysics, but in a good way, that is… —poetically, of Ardrey’s use of Petter’s term noyau. The discussion of noyau, or noyaux in the French plural, is a…

In reshelving books on their shelves recently, with the two bookshelves themselves only returned to their place in the living room after we replaced the flooring, my eye lingered on a book cover. I did not recognise it, but it was familiar in the way one's infancy can return feelings. The book is then both unknown and known at the…

Reason ① versus Reason ② while currently reading Terry Eagleton's Culture and the Death of God Recently I’ve been circling like a vulture… I am a vulture… I am the… i am vulture thermalling above… — the gap. …looking for the signs of death below on the plains of rationality so I can feed my family in the nest, dear…