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Query for John K: does (if so how) international regionalism relate to critical regionalism in architecture, which interests me but which I don't know much about? The one may include the other, or does the choice of qualifier matter? And I suppose there is no regionalism as such, but it's something that it's still a very powerful attachment to any more assimilable qualifier that's going. I was reading yesterday some essays in a recent issue (83) of Sub- Stance on the ecology of knowledge in Michel Serres. I like his topology which allows a global nomadism to percolate through what he retains as a "sedentary localism". Presumably space, like time, turns back on itself, obstructs or sidelines its own areas, so that it's not as if a locality can be merely surpassed or subsumed by some more dynamic space, when the locality may be what enables a more complex "flow" and seepage of space. On a more concrete level, I heard an impromptu reading by Barry McSweeney of most of "Pearl" in the West Country last week. He was staying around because the place (Nether Stowey) has a personal significance for him and he had never been back; but from there he was reading us through another "spot" which is the setting of Pearl, all part of an intonation as well as a setting. Interesting how such "fixities" of association are themselves often randomly distributed and capable of some sort of interassociation which doesn't always get serviced by an intermediary like internationalism etc. Or it may be such a global elsewhere is where the horizons of local places themselves reach to, but we can't always assume (without parodying the implied relation) that we do, we who are of too many margins to be able to give place to horizons. Peter Peter Larkin Philosophy & Literature Librarian University of Warwick Library Coventry CV4 7AL UK Tel: 01203 528151 Fax: 01203 524211 Email: [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%