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By Hole Ousia Posted on January 16, 2017January 28, 2023

The effect and trajectory of the love of reading is unpredictable

A selection of ‘IDENTS’ that I have collected from reading last year.

I intend to use some, or all of them, in my family film looking back on 2016:

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Categories: Omphalos films, Philosophy, Poems, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: Antiquary, Being with you is like being in this fantastic landscape, borrowed words, but the caption is wrong, Dr Peter Gordon, Epilogue: set me free, For meeting me (we are part of serendipity), For your beauty (beyond serendipity), Hanya Yanigihara, he can sense rather than see, he hoped his eyes said everything his words could not, He loved the light itself, he often forgot what he considered inconsequential details, he stopped - he was speaking in fragments, he wore his life on his skin, Hole Ousia, I want this to be right - to be exact - scientific., I was a doctor first, Iain Banks, idents, ignored behind the buildings, It was almost six. The light would change soon., it's a bear it's a boy it's a bear, it's not biological It's something extra-biological, led by curiosity or snagged by serendipity, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Drabble, only in middle age would he learn how to sing the song his whole youth had desired to sing, Peter Gordon, Power of Reading, progress hardly broke its stride, quotes, Reading for pleasure, reading from 2016 - Peter Scott-Gordon, Reading in the garden, rebel antiquary, Social maverick, some of the most celebrated anthropological narratives have curious gaps in them, still he was glad to see his old friend and he meant to show him what the centre of the universe looked like, The Antiquary, the effect and trajectory of the love of reading is unpredictable, The effect of the light in the garden he thought extraordinary, The first and final lesson: Mortality is a quality of life, the indestructibility of the imagination, The map and the clock, The Professor in fact - had not even been a professor, The Rebel Antiquary, The vast is not measured by the minute, there was an insistent present tenseness, they were colours anybody would want to paint so he did, time passes listen, to write the way he wanted to write, What logic of chronology could have made sense of such a sequence?, when we look back we simplify, Which I MUST MUST MUST MUST finish before I can be young again, William Carlos Williams, You didn't have to tick so many boxes, you made art because it was the only thing you'd ever been good at

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