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‘All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog’ (Kafka, 'Investigations of a Dog', 1922) ‘...

a flying and falling list List. n. A border; a boundary (obs.); a destination (Shake.). A catalogue, roll or enumeration. Desire; inclinati...

‘The desert could not be claimed or owned – it was a piece of cloth carried by winds, never held down by stones, and given a hundred shif...

I will not help you with this. You have to ‘deal’. Which means cope with un-meaning. Or with the possibility of un-meaning. Or cope with m...

More holiday reading, and another list - this time from a brilliant and acerbic essay by Chris Petit, in a fine new collection called Restle...

On holiday, reading an essay by Luc Sante, 'Our Friend The Cigarette': 'I picture a tableau from some secondary Last Judgment, w...

As Britain freezes (-10 near here last night), and the yak-lined thermals get an airing as the pipes burst, I discover this list in a book a...