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"One might say that in difference to the Bloomian vision of the individual genius who has to overcome the influence in order to be their own person, artist, Hoberman’s idea of greatness is an artist who is able to open themselves up to many influences, to be driven by these influences but also to be able to powerfully shape them."

"Over oceans the gossip travels in bounteous sneezes, chatter reaching islands at dawn, multiplying with the lifting sun and moving off to infect and settle the next atoll before the abrupt darkness." --Candia McWilliam, Debatable Land

Weirdest Books--my own list. (No doubt to be augmented in the future.)

"Proprioception for Dummies"

the standing dead · and all the lights they bear
out there · beyond the dark glass

the standing dead · what parley have i more
who stare · through the dark silent glass

i stand as dead · and do not yet require
such star · in the night of dark glass

(2009)

Late stage nymph (4th instar).