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From: "Eric" <ericandmary-AT-earthlink.net>
Subject: RE: Adieu to 2003
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 09:10:35 -0600


G,

What is a cold water mirage?  I also discovered Adcock this past year
through an essay of his on Duchamp, but isn't this book out of print? I
would really like to get a hold of this.

Here's hoping the Cubs will do even more in 2004 (echoing the great
Ernie Banks' famous annual poems about the next year.)  

eric
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L/All,

My 2003 list, while there's still time left:

1) the year I discovered that "surveillance" is now verb

2) the year I discovered the existence of a rather sublime phenomena
called 
a "cold water mirage."

3) chance discovery of 2003:  Craig E. Adcock's Marcel Duchamp's Notes
from the 
Large, An N-Dimensional Analysis

4) purposeful "discovery" of 2003:  Giorgio Agamben's The Coming
Community 
(i've been meaning to read and re-read and read this book for some
time.)

5) Best jazz album purchase:  Paul Bley Trio BeBopBeBopBeBopBeBop, 1990

6) Compelling sports event:  The Cubs loss w/ five outs to go and the 
subsequent persecution of Steve Bartman, the unfortunate fan blamed for
the 
incident.

7) Best DVD: Tenacious D, The Complete Master Works

8) Favorite W. Bush-ism:  "It's important for us to explain to our
nation that 
life is important.  It's not only life of babies, but it's life of
children 
living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet" (Arlington
Heights 
speech, 2000, recorded in the 2003 "They Misunderestimate ME!, The
Curious 
Language of GWB Calendar.")

Here's one more from GWB to lead us into this 2004 election year:

"I don't see many shades of gray in war and terror.  Either you're with
us or 
you're against us.  And it's a struggle between good and it's a struggle

between evil."

Happy 2004! 

g          





Quoting Lydia Perovich <fauxprophete-AT-hotmail.com>:

> [I meant to say, what the MH rage was ALL ABOUT, agh, sentences are
just 
> running out of control on some days.]
> 
> Isn't Machiavelli interesting, though.  His republican lament
*Discorsi 
> sulla prima deca di Tito Livio* is regularly overlooked in Poli Sci
depts, 
> not to mention the history of Florence that he wrote.  His play
Mandragola 
> still gets shown here and there.  A good reminder to look up his
writing in 
> more detail, thanx Eric.  (I am still waiting to hear your thoughts on

> Franzen's Corrections.)
> 
> My Italian philosophical revival of 2003 was related to Gramsci.  I
had no 
> idea how rich his oeuvre was till I read a manuscript on Gramsci's
life and 
> work that the publisher I work for would be co-publishing next year
with a 
> UK press. You can hear often about Gramsci these days but he is
usually 
> reduced to a few ideas that get endlessly recycled ('hegemony', 'war
of 
> position and war of maneuver', and 'organic intellectual').  There is
so 
> much in Gramsci.
> 
> Happy 2004 to all!
> 
> L
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