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		<title>Szymborska on Vermeer</title>
		<link>http://zuihitsu.org/etc/archives/2010/08/szymborska-on-vermeer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 21:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the latest issue of the New York Review of Books there is a short poem by Wisława Szymborska with the title &#8220;Vermeer&#8221;, translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh. The painting that forms the subject of the poem is &#8220;The Kitchen Maid&#8221;. Here is the painting, and the poem. Vermeer So long as that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the latest issue of the <a href="http://www.nybooks.com/">New York Review of Books</a> there is a short poem by Wisława Szymborska with the title &ldquo;Vermeer&rdquo;, translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh.  The painting that forms the subject of the poem is &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/aria/aria_assets/SK-A-2344?lang=en">The Kitchen Maid</a>&rdquo;.  Here is the painting, and the poem.</p>
<p><img align=center width=100% src="http://zuihitsu.org/images/vermeer_kitchen_maid.jpeg"/></p>
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<strong>Vermeer</strong><br />
So long as that woman from the Rijksmuseum<br />
in painted quiet and concentration<br />
keeps pouring milk day after day<br />
from the pitcher to the bowl<br />
the World hasn’t earned<br />
the world’s end.
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<p>(The sense of arrested time in painting reminds me of the Gabriel Josipovici story &ldquo;<a href="http://www.gabrieljosipovici.org/glasswater.shtml">A Glass of Water</a>&rdquo;, which makes a nice counterpoint).</p>
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		<title>Cooking a meal; mending socks; squeeze a lemon; give Money; Body-contact, Tender; Fondness or even Sexuality.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 20:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just received the following important email. Jesus Testament These are science Reports only with Facts and no emotional contends, if you are conflict-shay please don’t read it and delete it before. Like Jesus only talking in the wind. G&#252;nter If you don’t like to read this letter please forgive and delete it. God [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have just received the following important email.</p>
<blockquote><p>
<center>Jesus Testament</center></p>
<p>These are science Reports only with Facts and no emotional contends, if you are conflict-shay please don’t read it and delete it before. Like Jesus only talking in the wind. G&uuml;nter</p>
<p>If you don’t like to read this letter please forgive and delete it. God and Jesus are rejected over 2000 Years, it is normal. Peace be with you, thank you G&uuml;nter.</p>
<p>Jesus never said he comes back. He said only ones he comes back to his disciples, but not to the world &#123;Pentecost&#125;. Jesus said &lt;I came on earth to bring the Love on earth, to save the world&gt;. I bring back what goes lost, the Love the Holy Spirit.  He doesn’t get through with his attempt to save the world. No body is listening to his teaching, or to the law of God. So the world is lost. For eleven years you could see the &lt;Sign of Jesus&gt; on the Night-Heaven &#123;very bright and shiny, scanning the Earth for Human they are doing the law of God, how many and is it worth to save these World], exactly like before 2000 Years, special on the sign of Jesus was it reflected in every light, every light changed and chow the Sign of Jesus (compare with Ground-mosaic out of Jesus Time in Sidon Israel or in old Bibles from Calvin), it is gone now switched of, these Contact is closed. The Bible says this sign comes on the heaven short before the Apocalypse started. Now the Apocalypse is running for twelve years. &#123;Glasshouse-effect? Global warming ?&#125;.You can easy scientific prove, it is exactly the same. With Love it never happened it is homemade.</p>
<p>Jesus find out that no one in the world knows anymore what Love is and how to do it. It is the highest law of God, and no one of the human has any right to break this law. This could only lead to a world katastrove like God is warning, if the human get the idea to do not the law of God. God says: if you really get the idea and do not my law, I will punish you; I will even bring thatch a Misery over you that you eat your own children.  That’s why Jesus said the End is near. The human where believing that Love is: suffer like Jesus on the Cross; cooking a meal; mending socks; squeeze a lemon; give Money; Body-contact, Tender; Fondness or even Sexuality. They filling up whole Libraries with books about Love, only in the explanation of the Old Testament &#123;Torah; Koran; Kamathutra ;&#125; or Jesus was never one interested. Jesus tried to teach Love and how to do it, the highest law of God. Out of the old scriptures he explained; proofing and showed in life what he is talking about. God says in the in the Old Testament; Torah; Koran; Kamathutra; &lt;I m the Love and only the Love and only where the Love is can I be.&gt; don’t make a picture or allegory &#123;don’t compare me with nothing or nobody&#125; of me. Never!! &#123;The law of God&#125;.God is Love. The Love &#123;God&#125; has to become in your body flesh, you have to feel it. John says &lt;even when you are dying you have to feel love in your body&gt;.Jesus explained: The kingdom of God takes place in your body; the house or the temple of God is your body, logo no where else. Jesus says :&lt; be hot or cold between is nothing&gt;, it says you have to feel in your whole body Love. Have only Love in your heart is impossible. Love is blissful happiness; a strong warm prickly feeling, that takes every negative feeling away; Love takes instantly every Sin of the world away; Love takes every mental illness away in seconds and is Rebirthing. Love brings every positive feelings and conditions to the highest form. It is like somebody switched the light on in your head &#123;Delighting&#125;. Without Love you have no life; you get no life; you never will have life; you loose your life and get never Eternity in Heaven. &lt;Jesus&gt;. If you feel not blissful happiness in your body, you have no Love, you are not able to love and/or do the highest law of God. You get no Eternity, you have to love is the highest law of God, what ever you like to believe .Jesus explains how to do Love, try it and you will understand. Jesus said&lt; open your eyes to your heart and you can love&gt;.But you have to do it really, day and night. If you stop half of the way to the heart, or have a brick between your eyes and your heart, it will with guarantee not work. You can not betray God! You have to make always a fresh and friendly face full of Love and the Love has to come from the Insight. Jesus said &lt;you are only believing in me when you are doing what I say &#123;that only is FAITH nothing else&#125; and not only when you know about it&gt;.Jesus said: sacrifice your self &lt;you have to make always a fresh and friendly face, full of Love&gt;.It says; you have not to make a grumpy Face while you find it distinguished. Trust ever in God. Jesus said &lt;love your next, that you not loos the Holy Spirit, and that you be always in good exercise &gt;. &#123;Jesus never said love your Neighbour, this is misleading, the Nonbeliever and the Seducers are using it and ignoring the law of God, what says love your Parents, Husband, Children and every one without any condition. It says; when you stop to love the next person to you, in at least one week you will loos the Love in your body, trust in Jesus he is experienced. You don’t have to like them in any way, only give them Love and let God do his work, it is just amazing. You don’t need to have Eye-contact, only open your eyes to your heart and luck on a Body-part or hair it will work in every distance, so more next to you at so better. Love your Next! (Jesus) Without Love the Human is not functioning like a Human, more like a Robot or Zombie.</p>
<p>Jesus said &lt;love your enemies&gt; when you love your enemy, in the same moment when he takes actions, you change his negative feelings in seconds, about the same strength into Love and deep Pease. He becomes unable to attack you. A human becomes only aggressive &#123;in witch form ever from mild anger to the highest form of Violence&#125; in fact of fear or in fact of frustration; one another reason is impossible. Human with Love and Tender become after downloading of the pure Feeling-aggression instantly overwhelming happy. God is almighty. Why do you have to love unconditional? If you do love with any condition, you can be frustrated, and frustration is feeling empty, burnt out. But when you feel empty you have no Love in your body, so you can not love, you can only give what you have&lt;Logo&gt;! So always unconditional Love and nothing else. It is the highest and most distinguishes law of God (Jesus) and you have to do it, if you will have Eternity, there is sure no way around, no exempt, no pardon, no mercy, and no grace. Not even when somebody used your Authority-shyness like always, it is no excuse only you are responsible for you self nobody else and only God is the highest Authority out of Question. If you like a chitty life and reject God without any reason &#123;nobody can be so stupid or deranged&#125;, it is up to you. Jesus said don’t go to the empty Peoples don’t trust them never. Budda works exactly like Jesus for God only with pure Love and Truth, and said in the Kamathutra don’t go to the Meditation-Peoples they are cold and empty don’t trust them never ever. Luck the peoples in the Eyes you can always see the have the Holy Spirit or not, Peoples without the Holy Spirit are empty. The eyes are the mirror of the soul. The Love &#123;God&#125; and&lt; falling in Love&gt; are absolute different and have different reason. Jesus says your body died, but your Soul lives for ever in Eternity in Haven or Hell it is your choice &#123;weight of the Soul ca 26 gr and left the Body when dying&#125;. May be you like to have a life, think about it. Give the Emperor what’s the Emperor’s is the Money. Give God what’s God’s is, the Love. God &#123;the Love&#125; has to come always and in every case first&#8230;</p>
<p>What in the world has Love to do with the Apocalypse? (???)</p>
<p>Every thing, Love is a ground-need, without Love no Feelings are working on the right way, no human can find anymore satisfaction no matter what he trays to do and he consumed his own world away, every day quicker and quicker in the search for Satisfaction. With love he finds very quick satisfaction, that’s it. With Love the Apocalypse never happened. You can’t stop it anymore or slow it down, it is gone forget it, it accelerating in self. Live you’re Life so long you can and save your Soul with doing Love. Christianity is only possible in pure Truths and pure Love and only human they are doing what Jesus is teaching are Christian like Jesus says&#8230; The Holy War has to be without any Form of Power use, only through convincing and the Holy Spirit Love read it in Koran; Torah; Kamathutra; Old Testament.</p>
<p>Every word is like Jesus words only talking in the wind G&uuml;nter.</p>
<p>Among other duties Seer-Prophet of the Aboriginal from Australia.</p>
<p>G&uuml;nter von Heymann, 42 Old Laidley-Forest Hill Road, Forest Hill 4342, Qld Australia,   Tel. &#123;07&#125;54654204
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		<title>My Little Doppelg&#228;nger Poltergeist Soul</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dictionary quotation of the day comes from the Oxford English Dictionary entry for doppelg&#228;nger&#8212; It may well be that you will observe my little doppelg&#228;nger poltergeist soul hoisting a drink in a bar in them parts. (From Harvey Breit and Margerie Bonner Lowry (Eds), Selected Letters of Malcolm Lowry, Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1965).]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dictionary quotation of the day comes from the <em>Oxford English Dictionary</em> entry for <em>doppelg&auml;nger</em>&mdash;</p>
<blockquote><p>It may well be that you will observe my little doppelg&auml;nger poltergeist soul hoisting a drink in a bar in them parts.</p></blockquote>
<p>(From Harvey Breit and Margerie Bonner Lowry (Eds), <em>Selected Letters of Malcolm Lowry</em>, Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1965).</p>
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		<title>Procrastination</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Currently on the London Review of Books homepage&#8212; In the next issue, which will be dated 28 January, Perry Anderson: Ways of Looking at China; David Trotter on phone booths; James Lever on Philip Roth. We’ve given up hope of James Wood on Lermontov.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Currently on the <em>London Review of Books</em> <a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/">homepage</a>&mdash;</p>
<blockquote><p>In the next issue, which will be dated 28 January, Perry Anderson: Ways of Looking at China; David Trotter on phone booths; James Lever on Philip Roth. We’ve given up hope of James Wood on Lermontov.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Just as Beautiful</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine writing a poem by assigning to every letter of the alphabet some other letter, so that they are mutually assigned&#8212;so, for example, if I were to assign E to A, I’d have to assign A to E; if I were to assign D to T, I’d have to assign T to D, and so [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Imagine writing a poem by assigning to every letter of the alphabet some other letter, so that they are mutually assigned&mdash;so, for example, if I were to assign <em>E</em> to <em>A</em>, I’d have to assign <em>A</em> to <em>E</em>; if I were to assign <em>D</em> to <em>T</em>, I’d have to assign <em>T</em> to <em>D</em>, and so on. Imagine enciphering the alphabet according to such a rule. There are about 8 trillion different ways of enciphering the alphabet so that the letters are mutually encoded. Pick one of those 8 trillion ciphers. Now write a poem that is beautiful, that makes sense, in such a way that if you were to swap out every single letter of that poem and replace it with its counterpart from the mutual cipher, you’d produce a new poem that still remains just as beautiful and that still makes sense.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.believermag.com/issues/200906/?read=interview_bok">Christian B&ouml;k interviewed by Jonathan Ball</a>, in <em>The Believer</em>, Vol. 7, No. 5, June 2009. (via <a href="http://harpers.org/archive/2009/12/0082741">Harper&#8217;s</a>).</p>
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		<title>Two Quotes</title>
		<link>http://zuihitsu.org/etc/archives/2009/09/two-quotes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 02:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How conscious is this echo? What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. (Ecclesiastes 1:3&#8211;4) How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How conscious is this echo?</p>
<blockquote><p>What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?  One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.</p></blockquote>
<p>(Ecclesiastes 1:3&ndash;4)</p>
<blockquote><p>How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his products be, compared with those accumulated by nature during whole geological periods.</p></blockquote>
<p>(Darwin, <em>Origin</em>, p. 84).</p>
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		<title>Amusing Classification of the Day and To The Fool-King Belongs the World</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the latest issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion there is an article by Amy DeRogatis with the title &#8220; &#8220;Born Again Is a Sexual Term&#8221;: Demons, STDs, and God&#8217;s Healing Sperm&#8221;, about &#8220;the intersection between sexuality and spiritfilled bodies in American Evangelicalism&#8221;. The article is oriented around a book with [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the latest issue of the <em><a href="http://jaar.oxfordjournals.org/">Journal of the American Academy of Religion</a></em> there is an article by <a href="https://www.msu.edu/~derogat1/">Amy DeRogatis</a> with the title &ldquo; <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfp020">&ldquo;Born Again Is a Sexual Term&rdquo;: Demons, STDs, and God&#8217;s Healing Sperm</a>&rdquo;, about &ldquo;the intersection between sexuality and spiritfilled bodies in American Evangelicalism&rdquo;.  The article is oriented around a book with the title <em>Holy Sex: God’s Purpose and Plan for Our Sexuality</em>, which argues &ldquo;that sexually transmitted diseases are, in fact, demons lodged in genetic material that can be transferred through body fluids and bloodlines&rdquo;.    Casting around for more information, I found the <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=y2IEAAAACAAJ">Google Books</a> page&mdash;where it is categorised under <em>Fiction / Erotica</em>.  Exactly.</p>
<p>Further searching reveals that one of the authors of the book, Terry Wier, is scientifically literate not only in molecular biology, but also in the neurobiology and cognitive science of human sexuality.  Here is his technique for turning a homosexual into a heterosexual<sup><a href="http://zuihitsu.org/etc/archives/2009/08/amusing-classification-of-the-day-and-to-the-fool-king-belongs-the-world/#footnote_0_935" id="identifier_0_935" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="From Wayne R. Besen, Anything but Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth, Routledge, London, 2003, pp. 139&amp;ndash;140">1</a></sup>&mdash;<img width=100% src="http://zuihitsu.org/images/wier_therapy.png"/></p>
<p>I dedicate to Wier this passage from Schiller<sup><a href="http://zuihitsu.org/etc/archives/2009/08/amusing-classification-of-the-day-and-to-the-fool-king-belongs-the-world/#footnote_1_935" id="identifier_1_935" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="From Anna Swanwick (Trans), The Maid of Orleans, in The Works of Frederick Schiller, Bell and Daldy, London, 1872, Volume 3, Historical Dramas, p. 396.">2</a></sup>&mdash;<img width=100% src="http://zuihitsu.org/images/schiller_stupidity.png"/></p>
<ol class="footnotes"><li id="footnote_0_935" class="footnote">From Wayne R. Besen, <em>Anything but Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth</em>, Routledge, London, 2003, pp. 139&ndash;140</li><li id="footnote_1_935" class="footnote">From Anna Swanwick (Trans), <em>The Maid of Orleans</em>, in <em>The Works of Frederick Schiller</em>, Bell and Daldy, London, 1872, Volume 3, Historical Dramas, p. 396.</li></ol>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Amerika</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flipping through the excellent By its Cover1 I noticed a familar cover design, credited to Alvin Lustig for the New Directions edition of Kafka&#8217;s Amerika. However I had never seen this book&#8212;instead, I own the Picador paperback of the Bret Easton Ellis collection The Informers (I would swap). A nice design quotation, probably lost on [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Flipping through the excellent <em>By its Cover</em><sup><a href="http://zuihitsu.org/etc/archives/2009/08/amerika/#footnote_0_919" id="identifier_0_919" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="Ned Drew and Paul Sternberger, By its Cover, Princeton Architectural Press, Princeton, 2005.">1</a></sup> I noticed a familar cover design, credited to Alvin Lustig for the New Directions edition of Kafka&#8217;s <em>Amerika</em>.  However I had never seen this book&mdash;instead, I own the Picador paperback of the Bret Easton Ellis collection <em>The Informers</em> (I would swap).  A nice design quotation, probably lost on everyone besides <a href="http://www.thebookdesignreview.com/">book design aficionados</a> and those&mdash;like me&mdash;who happen to stumble upon it<sup><a href="http://zuihitsu.org/etc/archives/2009/08/amerika/#footnote_1_919" id="identifier_1_919" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="I am not the first to notice.  See http://www.totalcardboard.com/book_cover_gallery.htm.">2</a></sup>.<center><img width=100% src="http://zuihitsu.org/images/lustig_amerika_informers.png"/><br />
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<p>There&#8217;s a <a href="http://www.alvinlustig.com/">very nice website</a> on Lustig, which at one time was <a href="http://www.alvinlustig.com/lustig_printsUSA.php">selling prints</a> of this cover, along with some of his other New Directions designs.  Unfortunately, they are all sold out&#8230;</p>
<ol class="footnotes"><li id="footnote_0_919" class="footnote">Ned Drew and Paul Sternberger, <em><a href="http://www.papress.com/html/book.details.page.tpl?isbn=9781568984971">By its Cover</a></em>, Princeton Architectural Press, Princeton, 2005.</li><li id="footnote_1_919" class="footnote">I am not the first to notice.  See <a href="http://www.totalcardboard.com/book_cover_gallery.htm">http://www.totalcardboard.com/book_cover_gallery.htm</a>.</li></ol>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>She Couldn&#8217;t Read it Consecutively</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 09:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eve Arnold, Marilyn Monroe reading Ulysses, 1955. From a letter dated 20 July 1993 from Eve Arnold to Richard Brown, quoted in Richard Brown, &#8220;Marilyn Monroe Reading Ulysses: Goddess or Postcultural Cyborg?&#8221;, in R. B. Kershner (Ed), Joyce and Popular Culture, University Press of Florida, Gainesville, 1996, p. 174. Monroe is reading the 1934 Random [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><center><img width=100% src="http://zuihitsu.org/images/arnold_marilyn_ulysses.jpg"/>Eve Arnold, Marilyn Monroe reading <em>Ulysses</em>, 1955.<br />
<img width=100% src="http://zuihitsu.org/images/arnold_on_marilyn_ulysses.png"/>From a letter dated 20 July 1993 from Eve Arnold to Richard Brown, quoted in Richard Brown, &ldquo;Marilyn Monroe Reading <em>Ulysses</em>: Goddess or Postcultural Cyborg?&rdquo;, in R. B. Kershner (Ed), <em>Joyce and Popular Culture</em>, University Press of Florida, Gainesville, 1996, p. 174.</center></p>
<p>Monroe is reading the 1934 Random House edition, with the dust jacket removed.  This is the edition that was <a href="http://www.jamesjoyce.ie/detail.asp?ID=127">famously set from a pirate version containing numerous errors</a>.  This defect notwithstanding, the dust-jacket artwork and typographic design by Ernst Reichl constitute one of the great works in the history of book design.</p>
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<p>Unfortunately, Random House seems to be oblivious to this fact&mdash;in their 2002 hardcover reprint, they reproduced the artwork and design without crediting Reichl<sup><a href="http://zuihitsu.org/etc/archives/2009/08/she-couldnt-read-it-consecutively/#footnote_0_900" id="identifier_0_900" class="footnote-link footnote-identifier-link" title="Ned Drew and Paul Sternberger, By its Cover, Princeton Architectural Press, Princeton, 2005, p. 16">1</a></sup>.</p>
<ol class="footnotes"><li id="footnote_0_900" class="footnote">Ned Drew and Paul Sternberger, <em><a href="http://www.papress.com/html/book.details.page.tpl?isbn=9781568984971">By its Cover</a></em>, Princeton Architectural Press, Princeton, 2005, p. 16</li></ol>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>A Poem with Plenty of Fish</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Richard Higgins, Foew and Ombwhnw: A Grammar of the Mind and a Phenomenology of Love and a Science of the Arts As Seen by a Stalker of the Wild Mushroom, Something Else Press, New York, 1969, pp. 134&#8211;135.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From Richard Higgins, Foew and Ombwhnw: A Grammar of <em>the Mind and a Phenomenology of Love and a Science of the Arts As Seen by a Stalker of the Wild Mushroom</em>, Something Else Press, New York, 1969, pp. 134&ndash;135.</p>
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