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Entries from August 2021

Index Cards (100)

August 25th, 2021 · Comments Off on Index Cards (100)

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Principles of Cerebral Mechanics

August 16th, 2021 · Comments Off on Principles of Cerebral Mechanics

Principles of Cerebral Mechanics is now available from Wakefield Press! This is my third translation of Charles Cros (these are the others). Here’s how Wakefield describes it: Though lesser known among the scientific writings of Charles Cros, Principles of Cerebral Mechanics is a visionary work that further establishes the author’s standing as the inventeur maudit […]

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Typos on Title Pages

August 9th, 2021 · Comments Off on Typos on Title Pages

For the “Errata” edition of the Black Scat Review, I came up with a list of unfortunate typos on title pages. I particularly enjoyed inventing fictional publishers. Here’s how it begins: TYPOS ON TITLE PAGES H. L. Mencken once observed that a book is most likely to have a typo on the title page, since […]

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Maybe Those Hornets Would Like These Posies

August 1st, 2021 · Comments Off on Maybe Those Hornets Would Like These Posies

One of my musical preoccupations in July was a set of eleven duets for tenor recorder and viola (or other suitable instruments). Each is 33 measures long; here’s the first one.

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