Extraordinary Discourse Podcast

Outré Train The artist who could disentangle the subtle soul of the image from its mesh of defining circumstances most exactly and 're-embody' it in artistic circumstances chosen as the most exact for it in its new office, he [sic] was the supreme artist. James Joyce, Stephen Hero

Unorthodocumentary …not an 'interview' or a 'conversation' -although it has elements of both. It grows in many directions, without an overall ordering principle. To use Deleuze's terms it is the book as war-machine, the book as 'rhizome'. There is no hierarchy of root, trunk and branch, but a multiplicity of interconnected shoots going off in all directions. It is therefore both an explanation and an exemplification of 'Deleuzian pluralism'. Hugh Tomlinson Barbara Habberjam Translator's Introduction Deleuze , Dialogues II

A Thing Or Two Besides Our time is a routine twist of an improbable yarn. Annie Dillard For The Time Being

Advance The Conversation You know how men [sic] have always hankered after unlawful magic, and you know what a great part in magic words have always played. If you have his name, or the formula of incantation that binds him, you can control the spirit, genie, afrite, or whatever the power may be. Solomon knew the names of all the spirits, and having their names, he held them subject to his will. William James

Deep Chitchat The mainstream is a sideshow. Boredom on steroids. Jack Having words for these forms makes the differences between them so much more obvious. With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see. Robin Wall Kimmerer thanks to Maria Popova

Off To The Side Of all the many subdivisions of comedy, he [Stephen Leacock] excelled at the one we call nonsense, although it often seems to pierce through appearances to a finer sort of sense to any we know in the world of everyday. Consider the quotation from Gertrude the Governess, which is the only piece of Leacock to get into both Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, and the Oxford Dictionary Of Quotations: "Lord Ronald flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions." Robertson Davies The Funny Professor Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking. John Maynard Keynes

Edge Effects I like "multi-"...multiplicity, multicultural, multiplication etc. Any contribution to diversification and value augmentation is achievement. Rossana Condoleo