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Malcesine on Lake Garda.

"Someone mentioned the ending of Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano, and someone else mentioned Anna Kavan’s Ice, and I commented after each Note to the effect that I remember what it felt like to read those books despite the many intervening years, how powerful they were, to the point where I can summon the environment, the room I was in, and so on." —@simonjoycerandall

Attempt to unearth the profound ontological implications of the thought of Marshall McLuhan.

"Forget this idea of lying, cheating senses. Your senses are extremely honest to you. You are just confused regarding what the senses are honest about.."

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Triolet.

tentacled song · silk geometries
      iron table
   tale in leather
the blurred carpet · astrobleme map
body removed · many echoes
      these lit ways
   yet wear traces
orange square · circular cells
fadge word to fill
skyhole

Biblical.

"When every statue-avatar-pseudo-German Romantic who doesn’t read Greek finally gets down to it—indeed as Heidegger, and Hölderlin did—I’ll eat a pair of medieval peasant shoes, Van Gogh’s or otherwise." —@avmarraccini

"In the US, literacy peaked around 2014 and has been sliding since."