Notebook

Page 113 - Time for change

2012-05-25T16:36:04Z

Page 112 - It's nice not to have to resist the world.

2012-05-16T22:55:28Z

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A few notes from my interview with Sheila Heti that took place in a park in the sunshine. She is author of a novel, How Should a Person Be?, which will be published in the US in June. The quotes are from Heti. The man in the park is from my grandmother's notebook, probably clipped from the Montreal Gazette in the 1980s. The globe graphic is from The Economist as I no longer subscribe to Forbes.

Page 111 - The unnatural protrusion of their bones.

2012-05-10T15:51:19Z

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Clockwise from top left: Max's Axe ; a hand drawn map of a bear attack crime scene by Kerry Gunther ; the hand fitness trainer as found in the Hammacher Schlemmer catalog ; passage from The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan.

Page 110 - A wormhole from the eighties opened up

2012-04-26T12:30:02Z

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Clockwise from top right: a photo of ice on a window pane from Photography & the Art of Seeing by Freeman Patterson ; The Folio Society in the UK recently published an edition of The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (subscription needed) ; I get nervous when my favourite books are made into movies (I still haven't seen The Road, Stuart Henderson says 'don't!' (third review down) ; from the Q & A with Molly Ringwald on Reddit.

Page 109 - Migod, Margaret got her way.

2012-04-21T12:57:16Z

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A letter from editor Jack McClelland to Margaret Laurence about a title for The Fire-Dwellers, found in Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters of Jack McClelland edited by Sam Solecki.

Page 108 - Solitude builds like electricity

2012-04-13T14:23:09Z

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Clockwise from top left: Marilynne Robinson from her new book "When I was a Child I Read Books" as quoted in Intelligent Life ; an old (ish) photo ; Connecting Science and Art, novelist Cormac McCarthy, filmmaker Werner Herzog and physicist Lawrence Krauss discuss science as inspiration for art on NPR.

Page 107 - The freedom to be lords of our own tiny skull-sized kingdoms

2012-04-03T13:56:48Z

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Clockwise from top left: A drawing made by Harvey Cushing (1869-1939) immediately after an operation ; a diamond encrusted skull by Damien Hirst that is called “For the love of God, what are you going to do next?” ; a quote about Pintrest from 'We can Become Known' by Schmutzie and, next down, in her post was a quote form Bossypants by Tina Fey ; handwritten quote from David Foster Wallace in an article that was adapted from a speech to the graduating class at Kenyon College, Ohio. The title of this page also comes from that speech.

Page 106 - The world is easily lost.

2012-03-31T14:25:23Z

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Map from Canoe Routes of Algonquin Park (1997/98), words from Deliverance by James Dickey.

Page 105 - Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty

2012-03-20T17:54:59Z

Photos were pinned on my cork board and are from a book published by McClelland & Stewart, Algonquin: The Park and Its People, photographs by Donald Standfield and text by Liz Lundell ; Title quote from playwright Willam Archer via Andrew Stanton.

Page 104 - The Black Dog must be dispatched

2012-03-08T13:25:44Z

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Clockwise from top left: The Tent by Tom Thompson, I cut it from a calendar from the McMichael Gallery ; a slightly smaller Coleman cooler, I've lost track of who owns this particular one ; a purple flower...? ; Cat Power ; a note, typical of the specimens that I find on my bedside table each morning ; Cat Power (watch this, it's worth waiting for the 16 second ad, trust).