Over and Over and Over and Over

Pieces of music that do the same things over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over, until in the repetition you begin to see that the repeated thing has infinitely more variety than you hitherto believed, these pieces of music are so good that we need to laud and magnify them.

(Rick Moody, "A Short Philosophical Primer", in AGNI, 57).

AGNI is now online, with Sven Birkerts as the new editor. This is good. Birkerts is automatically cool because he is a David Foster Wallace fan, even if he is a little slow to spot technological trends, but hey, Paul Auster still uses a typewriter, David Foster Wallace himself doesn't have a television, and Ray Bradbury wrote "The Fireman", the 1950 novella upon which "Fahrenheit 451" is based, on a coin-operated typewriter in the basement of the UCLA library, over the course of nine days and at a cost of 10 cents every half hour. The latest AGNI actually has a Foster Wallace story in it. What are you waiting for?