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  • Fragment

    December 24, 2025

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    Nothings

    Mr Callanan felt homely. There was a good fire burning in the grate and he knew that it was cold outside. He had been about town all day shopping with Mrs Callanan and he had met many friends. These friends had been very friendly, exchanging the compliments of the season, joking with Mrs Callanan about Read more

  • Folies Meurtrières

    November 7, 2025

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    Music

    My new album Folies Meurtrières is out today. Read more

  • Blooming

    May 22, 2025

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    Nothings

    That’s me in mourning. When is it? May the twenty-second. Sure, the blooming thing is all over. He turned to the right and on his right Master Dignam turned, his cap awry, his collar sticking up. Buttoning it down, his chin lifted, he saw the image of Marie Kendall, charming soubrette, beside the two puckers. Read more

  • Ever in Good Stead

    April 26, 2025

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    Nothings

    April 26. I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race. Read more

  • April 15

    April 15, 2025

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    Nothings

    Met her today point-blank in Grafton Street. The crowd brought us together. We both stopped. She asked me why I never came, said she had heard all sorts of stories about me. This was only to gain time. Asked me, was I writing poems? About whom? I asked her. This confused her more and I Read more

  • March 23

    March 23, 2025

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    Nothings

    Have not seen her since that night. Unwell? Sits at the fire perhaps with mamma’s shawl on her shoulders. But not peevish. A nice bowl of gruel? Won’t you now? Read more

Thought:

“Why in the case of the ear, is there withdrawal and turning inward, a making resonant, but in the case of the eye, there is manifestation and display, a making evident?”

Jean-Luc Nancy

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