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Dec 30, 2011

Reading

"In fact, a book or a composition is not an end-product, not in itself a useful commodity. The end-product of an artist's work, the 'useful commodity' in the production of which he plays a role, is ideological influence. He is as incapable of producing this on his own as a blacksmith is of producing Concorde. The production of ideological influence is highly socialised, involving (in the case of music) performers, critics, impresarios, agents, managers, etc., and above all (and this is the artist's real 'means of production') an audience."

-Cornelius Cardew

Aug 17, 2011

Eunoia

A list of words found in my copy of Christian Bök's Eunoia that are underlined in pencil.

ankh athwart amaranth vassal manna Malahat shawarma cassabananas taramasalata gravlax crawdad vassal czardas tandava sardana l'Afghan chantant a l'amant dansant tantaras bacchant phantasmata damask arras casbah Cranach Cassatt Chagall abaft algal tarns phalanx atlatl abradants landwrack exgete dreck seceded demesne echt Weltschmerz en fete resplendence effete effervescent svelte lechers jezebel nepenthe decedent efreets verve xebecs kevels kedges reft mettle fettle thews Epees fletchers cerements glebe ephebes eskers chert scree bestrews veldts sedges vetch geld egrets grebes petrels tercels meres svelteness sigils priggish kibitz philippic schist finch siskin ibis tit pipit swift rills Virgil lich vivific djinni phthisis drisk sigil Inniskillin Klimt nihil dicit fini Wordsworth provosts colophons rococo morocco donjons kowtow Moloch forsooth mondo doloroso molto sordo oxbows moonwort phlox smolt snook zoomorphs rocs Ostrogoths kobolds Chthon poltroons coxcombs wroth pogroms Lvov Brno protozoon sporozoon Dogon octoroons bromo toothwort Komsomol Novgorod chronotrons bosons thoron Knossos monophthongs monoglot Thoth Copts hornbooks Oroonoko Nostromo Orozco tondos bon mots Kunst Glück mulcts usufruct Duluth grugru lugnut mundungus fulcrums muumuu fugu bulgur blutwurst brühwurst tuns sputum Rumdum dun burrs Ursus Curs Gnus kudzu susurrus cumulus Sturm und Druck portents cuirass commingles glaives verdant venery oblivial calico Linseed beguile vocables

Jejune reliquaries canticles pentacles paroxysms SYZYGY PYX GYP SYNCH TRYST PTYX LYSYL BRR GLYCYL SYLPHS NYM WYRMS STYRYL FYRDS WYRDS WYCH MYTHY LYNX CWM CRWTH MYST WYNDS MYRRH valise residuum tautonym pewterers ewers cressets epergnes les eleves d'echecs vetements de Sevres kemp fezzes spencers serge cheverel les crevettes les entrees tres excellentes les entremets ephemeres les belles-Helenes degelees crepe de chevre et creme de menthe les cremes renversees shekels feckless welshers renege telexes pensees des esthetes lexemes E SERVEM LEX EST - c'est le reglement