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Buchnarr, 1494. Ware! Ware! Ware the Book-Fool!Books are what I do : Write (very slowly), Read (rapidly or at leisure), Re-read (for pleasure or reference), Buy and Sell (my livelihood), Catalogue and Describe (ditto), Edit, Publish, Review (for The New York Review of Science Fiction and others), Recommend or Give away, Receive, and — unavoidably and repeatedly — Lift (whether singly or in boxes). I concede a fondness for private eye novels, equalled by my interest in the quirky, erudite, or obscure, and surpassed only by my love of the literature of the fantastic.

— Henry Wessells

Category: Pierre Huyghe

‘alone in the bee-loud glade’

Author Henry WessellsPosted on 2 July 202420 July 2024Categories commonplace book, Pierre Huyghe, San Francisco

in the gardens of the de Young museum in Golden Gate park on a sunny afternoon, the buzzing of bees is distinctly audible and the scent of honey is powerful

Pierre Huyghe’s installation Exomind (Deep Water) is distinctly uncanny ; the figure is poised to walk among us.

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This creaking and slowly evolving website of the endless bookshelf : updated more or less quarterly (don’t I wish it occurred more often), with regular marginal glosses ; some entries are brief mentions, others take the form of more elaborate essays, commentaries, or reviews. [HWW]

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