The legend of Kasch teaches
us that sacrifice is the cause of
ruin, but that the absence of
sacrifice is also the cause
of ruin. This pair of simultaneous
and contradictory truths hints
at a singular and more
obscure truth, which lies in
tranquility: society is ruin.
And from this obscurity a sign
points us to something further,
something on the bedrock:
society is ruin because in it
reverberates the sound of the
world - its incessant, consuming
drone.
In storytelling there is an element
that is deeply opposed to mortal
judgement, that skirts its coercive
side, eludes the descending knife.
Storytelling is a going forward and
a turning back, a wave-like
movement in the voice, a continual
canceling of borders, a dodging
of sharp spears.
The ruin of Kasch is the origin
of literature. The soma is the
origin of sweetness.
Roberto Calasso: The Ruin of Kasch
(trs William Weaver & Stephen Sartarelli) | Border/Lines
http://www.giardini.cm/indice.htm (Totally crazy Italian collection of contemporary writers, but does include Benjamin)
http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~eds/index.html (Even crazier collection, but includes Calvino)
http://filament.illumin.co.uk/ica (Browse this site and find an interview with John Berger)
http://www.uic.edu/lauramd/sf/carter.htm/ (One of the few sites with anything to say about Angela Carter)
http://www.personal.u-net.com/~guerilla/dtcntnt.htm
(Dylan Thomas Page)
A Wales Reading List
Poetry Server
Poetry Mags (Electronic Poetry Center, SUNY Buffalo)
Lenny Bruce
useful collection on Norman Bryson's art criticism
I quote Neruda at great length in ALPHA AND OMEGA
Africa site @ Harvard
Finally, as a marvellous romp through some of the Pomo material Brereton's idea of design theory and
life is worth listing not only for its intrinsic appeal, but also
its content.
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