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Lot of ice
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If I could select my age, I think I'd choose the Pleistoscene.
"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives."
--John Stuart Mill
Hal
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On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 5:44 AM, Lawrence Upton
wrote:
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> A free e-book of Lawrence Upton's WRACK is available from _Quarter > After_ press in USA. Download it from _Issuu_.
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> You need to join _Issuu _to download; but it is relatively mild and > apparently relatively benign data capture; they let you select your > age.
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> Download:
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> http://issuu.com/quarterafter/docs/upton_wrack
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> Quarter After home site:
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> http://quarterafter.org/2012/11/24/wrack-lawrence-upton/
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> WRACK contains three sets of writing: _I wrack_, _Intimacies_ and > _pages from a book of the dead._The writing is solo and polyvocal, > variously and sometimes simultaneously. There are multivoice texts; > and a range of visual texts.
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> Chris Goode writes:
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> I CAN T LEAVE WRACK ALONE, I KEEP RETURNING, MAKING SURE I VE > TAKEN IT ALL IN, AND OF COURSE I HAVEN T, AND IT S BECOMING > OVERWHELMING. I DEEPLY ADMIRE THIS WORK FOR HOW SUSTAINED IT IS, AND > HOW VARIOUS ARE ITS MOVEMENTS; I ENVY IT AND RECOIL FROM IT BECAUSE IT > TURNS OUT TO BE, FRANKLY, SHOCKING IN ITS COURAGEOUS INSISTENCE ON > PUTTING THE BODY WHERE THE MOUTH IS. UPTON SETS THE READER TO SERIOUS > DANCING ACROSS DISPUTED BORDERS, BETWEEN THE LINES OF AN EXHAUSTED > OFFICIAL DISCOURSE WHOSE STICKMAN SPOKESMEN HAVE NO BODY TO DANCE > WITH. WRACK SHOCKS MORE BECAUSE ITS SHOCKS COME SLOWLY, SURFACING > PATIENTLY THROUGH STRATA OF THE MATTER BEING DEALT WITH. VOICES > MULTIPLY, WORDS DIVIDE; STILLNESS AND MOBILITY KEEP CLINCHING EACH > OTHER IN THE SAME ACT. IT S LOVE MADE REAL IN THE COMPOUND EYE OF > ATTENTION, IN THE WEAL OF HEED NOT QUITE YET SPEECHLESS. ALL OF THE > LAWRENCE UPTONS YET KNOWN TO US AND ONE OR TWO STILL ARRIVING CONVERGE > IN THESE TEXTS, IN THIS SHIFTING BODY OF WORK, THE WRACK NOT LEFT > BEHIND. > > 93 pages > > download approx 1.6 Mb > > >
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