craft before craft — DIY RPGs and the meaning of a literary idea
cool engraver guy on a 47 Workshop letterhead Let there be the clack of the shuttle flying forward and back, forward and back, warp, wearp, varp: “cast of a net, a laying of eggs” from *warp- “to throw” the threads twisted for strength that can be a warp of the will. “O weaver, weaver, work no more,” Gascoyne is quoted: “thy warp hath done me wrong.” — from At the Loom, Passages 2, Robert Duncan With apologies to Lionel Trilling for the title. I was v busy between the end of the year at our middle school + grad school term papers + a brief stint in county jail (free Palestine!) and I'm thoroughly enjoying this do-nothing June. Promise that the next post will be about Africa, since the Mudimbe bit in the last one only kinda counts; A Most Majestic Fly Whisk post-Africanist era...impossible, evil. craft's empire In the wake of Mark McGurl's mag