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names, mostly surnames (1)

let me apologise for this partial list of names in the library,  titles available on request…

, Adorno, horkheimer, anderson, aristotle, greta adorno, marcuse, agamben, acampora and acampora, althussar, lajac kovacic, eric alliez, marc auge,  attali, francis bacon (16th c), aries, aries and bejin, alain badiou, beckett, hallward, barnes, bachelard, bahktin, volshinov, baudrillard, barthes, john beattie, medvedev, henri bergson, Jacques Bidet, berkman, zybmunt bauman, burgin, baugh, sam  butler, ulrich beck, andrew benjamin and peter osbourne, walter benjamin, ernest bloch, blanchot,  bruzins,  bonnet,  karin bojs,  bourdieu,  j.d. bernal, goldsmith,  benveniste, braidotti,  brecht,  burch, victor serge, andre breton, judith butler, malcolm bull, stanley cohen, john berger, etienne balibar, david bohm, gans blumenberg, martin buber, christopher caudwell, micel callon, albert camus, agnes callard,  castoridis, claudio celis bueno, carchedi and roberts, Marisol de la cadena,  mario blaser, nancy cartwright, manual castells, mark  currie, collingwood, canguilhem, mario corti, stuart hall, andrew lowe, paul willis, coyne, stefan collini, varbara cassin, helene cixous, coward and ellis, clastres, carr, cioren,  irving copi, cassirer, carter and willians, margeret cohen,  Francoise dastur, guy debord, agnes martin,  michele bernstein, alice, lorraine dastun, debaise, Gilles Deleuze, deleuze and gattari, guattari, parnet, iain mackenzie, bignall, stivale, holland, smith, james williams, zourabichvili, paul patton, kerslake,  schuster, bogue, bryant,  anne sauvagnargues, hanjo berresen, frida beckman, johnson, gulliarme and hughes, valentine moulard-leonard, desai,  dosse, duttman, d’amico,  benoit peters, derrida, hinca zarifopol-johnston, sean gaston,  discourse, mark poster, foucault,  steve fuller, markus gabrial, rosenbergm  milchamn, colin jones,  van fraasen,  fekete,  vilem flusser, flahault, heri focillon, rudi visker, ernst fischer,  fink, faye, fuller, fiho, marco bollo, hans magnus enxensberger, leen de bolle, canetti, ilya enrenberg,  thuan, sebastion peake, mervyn peake, robert henderson, reimann, roth,  bae suah,  yabouza, marco bellatin, cartarescu, nick harkaway, chris norris, deLanda, regis debray, pattern and doniger,  soame jynens, bernard williams, descartes, anne dufourmanteille, michelle le doeuff, de certaeu , deligny, Georges Dumezil, dumenil and levy,  bernard edelman, victorverlich, berio, arendt, amy allen, de beauvior,hiroka azumi,  bedau and humphreys,  beuad,  georges bataille, caspar  henderson,  chris innes,  yevgeny zamyatin,  louis aragon, italo calvino, pierre guirard,  trustan garcia, rene girard, paul gilroy, michal gardner,  andre gorz, jurgan gabermas, martin gagglund, beatrice hannssen, jean hyppolyte, axel honneth, zizek and crickett, stephen heath,  calentin groebner, j.b.s. haldane,  ian hacking,  david hakken,  hallward and oekken,  haug, harman, latour, arnold hauser, hegel, pippin, pinksrd, michel henry, louis hjelmslev,  gilbert hardin, alice jardine, karl jaspers, suzzane kirkbright, david hume,  thomas hobbes, barry hindus, paul hirst, hindess and hirst, wrrner hamacher,  bertrand gille,  julien huxley, halavais, irigaray, ted honderich, julia kristeva, leibnitz, d lecourt,  lazzaroto, kluge and negt, alexander kluge, sarah kofman, alexandre kojeve,  kolozoya, keynes,  richard kangston, ben lehman, kant,  francous jullien, fred hameson, sntonio rabucchi, jaeggi, steve lanierjones, tim jackson,  jakobson,   joeseph needham, arne de boever,  marx and engels, karl marx, frederick engels, heinrich,  McLellen , maturana and varuna,  lem, lordon, jean jacques-lecercle,  malabou,  marazzi,  heiner muller,  mary midgley, armand matterlart, ariel dorfman, matakovsky, nacneice, lucid,  victor margolis, narco lippi,  glen mazis, nair,  william morris,  nabis,  jean luc nancy,  geoffrey nash,  antonio negri,  negri and hardt, hardt, keith ansell pearson, pettman, william ruddiman, rheinberger, andre orlean, v.i. vernadsky,  rodchenko,  john willet, tarkovsky, william empson,  michel serres,  virillio, semiotexte, helmut heiseenbuttel,  plessner, pechaux, raunig, retort,  saito,  serres, dolphin, maria assad, spinoza,  bernard sharratt, isabelle stengers,  viktor shklovsky,  t. todorov,  enzo traverso, mario tronti,  todes, ivan pavlov,  whitehead, frank trentmann, trubetzkoy, rodowink, widderman, karl wittfogel, peter handke, olivier rolin, pavese,  robert walser, petr kral, von arnim,  sir john mennis,  ladies cabinet,  samuel johnson, edmund spenser,  efy poppy, yoko ogawa, machado,  kaurence durrell,  brigid brophy,  a. betram chandler, maria gabriella llansol, fowler,  ransmayr,  novick, llewellyn,  brennan, sean carroll,  julien rios, pintor, wraxall,  jaccottet, tabucchi,  iain banks, glasstone,  clarice lispector,  murakami, ludmilla petrushevskaya,  motoya, bachmann, lindqvist,  uwe johnson, einear macbride,  szentkuthy,  vladislavic, nanguel,  mathias enard,  chris tomas, jonathan meades,  armo schmidt, charles yu, micheal sorkin, vilas- matas, varesi, peter weiss,  stephenson, paul legrande,  virginie despentes, pessoa,  brin,  furst, gunter trass, umberto eco, reid, paul,klee, mario levero, hearn, judith schalansky, moorhead,  margert walters, rodchenko and popova, david king, alisdair gray, burroughs, ben fine, paul hirst, hindess,  kapuscinski, tchaikovsky,  brooke-rose, david hoon kim, helms,  mahfouz, ardret,  felipe fernandez-armesto,  young and tagomon,  aronson,  bonneuil and  fressoz, h.s. bennett, amy allen, bruckner brown, honegger, bernhard,  warren miller, albert thelen,  margoy bennett, rose macauley,  nenjamin peret, sax rohmer, angeliki, bostrom, phillip ball, the invisible commitee, bataille and leiris,  gregory bateson, michelle barrett and mary mcintosh, bardini, bugin, mcdonald, kaplan, buck-moores,  chesterman and lipman,  berman,  cicero, chanan,  chatelet,  helene cixous, iain cha,bers,  smirgel, norman clark, caird, camus,  clayre, chomsky, critchley,  curry,  swingewood,  luigi luca cavelli-sforza,  clark, esposito, doerner,  de duve, alexander dovzhenko, donzelot,  dennet, doyle, burkheim, de camp,  darwin,  dawkins,  didi-huberman, dundar, george dyson, berard deleuze, evo, barbara ehrenrich,  edwards,  e isenstein, ebeking, economy and society, esposito,  frederick gross,  david edgeerton,  douglas,  paul,feyerband,  jerry fodor,  gorrdiener,  tom forester, korsgaard,  fink,  floridi, elizabeth groscz, pierre francastel,  jane jacobs,  francois laplantinee,  gould,  galloway, goux,  godel, grouys, genette,  gil, kahloo, giddens,  martin gardner,  gilbert and dubar, hobbes,  herve, golinski, grotowski, glieck,  hayles, heidegger, huxley, eric hobsbawn, jean-louis hippolyte,  phillip hoare, tim jordan,  david harvey, hawking, hoggart,  rosemary jackson,  myerson,  mary jacobus, fox keller, illich,  sarah fofman, sylvia harvey, john holloway, han,  jaspers, yuk hui,  pierre hadot, carl gardner,  william james, bell hooks,  edmond jabes,  kierkegaard, alexander keen, kropotkin, tracy kidder,  mithen, kothari and mehta, lind,  c. joad,  bart kosko, kathy myers,  kaplan,  luce irigaraay, patrick ke iller, kittler,  catherine belsey,  kmar,  klossowski, holmes, kant, stanton,  ernesto laclau, jenkins, la mouffe,  walter john williams, adam greenfield, susan greenfield, paul auster, viet nguyen, jeremy nicholson,  andy weir, fred jameson,  lacoue-labarthe,  bede,  jane gallop, lacan,  wilden,  willy ley,  henri lefebvre, rob sheilds,  sandra laugier, micheal lowy, barry levinson, sylvain lazurus, lousardo, leopardo, jean-francois lyotard, jones,  lewontin,  steve levy,  alice in genderland,  laing, lanier, lakatos, laurelle, luxemburg,  lukacs, jarsh,  james lovelock, ideologu and consciousness, economy and society, screen, deleuze studies, deleuze and guattari studies,  bruno latour, david lapoujade,  stephen law, primo levi,  levi-strauss,  emmanuel levinas,  viktor schonberger, pierre levy, gustav landaur,  robin le poidevin,  les levidow, lautman, david cooper,  serge leclaire, catherine malabou, karl kautsky, alice meynall,  j.s. mill, montainge,  elaine miller, rosa levine-meyer, jean luc marion, henri lefebrve,  lipovetsky, terry lovell,  niklas luhmann,  richard may, machiavelli, richard mabey, john mullzrkey,  meyerhold, edward braun,  magri,  murray, nathanial lichfield, noelle mcafee,  hans meyer,  ouspensky, lucretius, asa briggs, william morris, christian metz, laura mulvey, len masterman,  karl mannheim, louis marin, alaister reynolds,  antonio  munoz molina,  FRAZER,  arno schmidt,  dinae waldman,  mark rothko, cornwall, micheal snow, sophie henaff, scarlett thomas,  matuszewski, lillya brik,  rosamond lehman , morris and o’conner,  nina bawden, cora sandel, delafield, storm jameson,  lovi , rachel ferguson,  stevie smith, pat barker, miles franklin, fay weldon,  crista wolff, grace paley, v. woolf, naomi mitchinson, sheila rowbotham,  e, somerville and v ross, sander marai,  jose  saramago,  strugatsky, jean echenoz, mark robso,  vladimir Vernadsky,  chris marker, Kim Stanley Robinson,  mario leverdo,  r.a. lafferty, martin bax, mcaulay, tatyana tolstaya,  colinn kapp,  jonathan meades,  franco fortini,  sam delany, philip e high, h.g. adler, feng menglong,  adam thorpe,  peeter nadas,  sam butler, narnold silver,  deren,  joanna moorhead, leonara carrington,  de waal,  hartt, botticelli,  charbonneau, casco pratolini,  murakami, aldiss,  guidomorselli, ludmilla petrushevskaya, ,schulz,  de andrade, yasushi. inoue, renoir,  amelie  nothomb,  ken liu,  prynne,  ANTIONE VOLODINE, luc brasso,  angela greene,  dorothea tanning,  eric chevillard,  margot bennett w.e. johns, conan doyle,  samuel johnson,  herge,  coutine-denamy, sterling, roubaud,  sloan, meiville,  delarivier manley, andre norton, perec, edward upward, tom mcCarthy,  magrinya,  stross,  eco, godden,  malcolm lowry,  derekmiller,  ismail kadare,  scott lynch, chris fowler, perter newman,  suzzana clarke,  paretky, juliscz balicki,  stanislaw maykowski, rajaniemi, william morris, c.k. crow,  ueys,  oldenburg,  mssrc chwmot,  will pryce,  munroe,  brnabas and kindersley, tromans,   lem, zelazny,  mitchinson, harry Harrison,  konstantin tsiolkovsky,  flammerion,  harrison, arthur c clarke, carpenter, john brunner,  anhony powell,  ted white, sheckley,  kristof, kempowski, shingo,  angelica groodischer,  rolin,  galeanom  dobin,  richard holloway,  pohl and kornbulth,  e.r. eddison,  ken macleodm  aldiss,  dave hutchinson,  alfred bester, budrys,  pynchon,  kurkov,  wisniewski_snerg, , kenji miyazawa,  dante,  laidlaw,  paek nam_nyong, maspero, colohouquon, hernandez,      christina hesselholdt, claude simon, bulgaakov,  simak,  verissimo,  sorokin,  sarraute,  prevert,  celan, bachmann,  mervin peake,  olaf stapledon,  sa rohmer,  robert musil,  le clezio,  jeremy cooper,  zambra,  giorgio de chirico,  mjax frisch,  gawron,  daumal,  tomzza,  canetti,  framcois maspero,  de quincy, defoe, green,, greene, marani,  bellatin,  khury, tapinar,, richmal crompton,  durrenmat,  fritz,  quintane,  volponi,  nanni balestrini,  herrera,  robert walser,  duras,  peter stamm,  m foster,  lan wright,  their theotokism  agustn de rojas, paul eluard,  sturgeon,  hiromi kawakomi,  sayaka murata,  wolfgang hilbig,  hmilton,  z  zivkovic,  gersson,  mallo,  bird,  chaudrey, Toussaint, Can Xue, Lewis Mumford, neitzsche, popper, zizek, scott westerfield, rousseau, lewis munford, tod may,  penelope maddy, elaine marks,  isabelle courtivron, leroi, massumi,  david sterritt, godard, millican and clark, macabe, negri,  mauss, maiimon, patrica maccormack, moretti, courtney humphries,  monad, moyn, malina, picasso, goldman, dambisa moyo,  merleau-ponty, Nicholson, knobe and nichols, poinciore, morris, ovid, ming, nail, thomas more, richard mabey,  macfarlane,  piscator,  louis-stempal,  negrastini, moore,  jacquline rose,  rose and rose, ryle, roszick, rosenburg, ravisson, paul ricoer,  rossler,  chantl mouffe,  david reiff, plato, slater, rowlands, rosa, john roberts,  rhan, dubios and rousseau, ronell,  jacques ranciere, mallarme,  quinodoz, peterpelbert, mary poovey, mackenzie, andrew price, opopper,  roger penrose, lu cino parisi,  gavin rae, parker and pollack,  mirowoski, perniola, postman, panofsky, propp, paschke and rodel, andre pickering, massabuau, lars svenddsen,  rosenberg and whyte, t.l.s. sprigger,  nancy armstrong,  sallis,  dale spender,  stanislavski,  vanessa schwartz,  shapin and shaeffer, sally sedgewick,  signs,  gabriel tarde,  charles singer, adam smith,  simondon,  pascal chablt,  combes, jon roffee, edward said,  sen,  nik farrell fox, sartre,  fred emery,  scholes, herbert spencer, ruth saw, spinoza,  raphael sassower, henry sidgewick, peter singer,  katarznya de lazari-radek,  piaget,  podach,  van der post, on fire, one press,  melossi and  pavarini,  pearl and mackenzie,  theirry paquot, tanizaki, RHS,  stone,  richard sennett,  graham priest,  osborn and pagnell, substance, pedrag cicovacki, schilthuizen,  susan sontag, gillian rose,  nikolas rose,  g rattery taylor, rose,  rajan,  stuart sim,  max raphael,  media culture and society,  heller- roazen,  rid, root, rossi, gramsci, showstack sasson, david roden,  adrew ross, rosenvallion, pauliina remes, pkato, peter sloterdijk, tamsin shaw, george simmel, bullock and trombley, mark francis,  alain supiot, suvin, mullen and suvin, stroma,  maimonides,  van vogt,  the clouds on unknowing, enclotic, thesis 11,  spivack,  kate raworth,  h.w. richardson,  hillial schwartz, stern, rebecca solnit, rowland parker,  pickering,  lukacs,  epicriud, epicetus, lucrtious,  aurelies,  w.j.oates,  thor Hanson,  thompson, mabey,  sheldrake,  eatherley,  plato, jeffries,  dorothy richardson,  arno schmidt,   earl derr biggersm  mary borden, birrel, arno schmidt,  o.a. henty,  berhard steigler,  victor serge,  smith,  joyce salisbury, pauer-studer,  timpanaro,  s helling, schlor, norman and welchman,  searle, emanuele severarimo,  tomasello, sklar, judith singer, walmisley,  thomas malthus,  quentin meilassoux,  alberto meelucchi,  mingione, rurnbull,  said, spufford and  uglow,  zone,  j.j.c. smartt, sandel, skater, songe-moller,  strawson,  strawson, strawson, raymond tallis,  toscano,  turkle,  tiqquin, diggins,  j.s. ogilivy, w.w. hutchings,  rackgam,  deiter roth,  dowell,  red notes,  campbell and pryce,osip brik, lilya brik, mayakovsky, zone, alvin toffker, st exupery, freya stark, warson, walsh, wooley, tiles and oberdick, timofeeva, richardson, marcuse,  marder,  wright,  ushenko, tolson, albebers and moholy- nagy, alyce mahon, gablik, burnett, barry, hill, fontaine, sanuel johnson,justin, block, taylor, peter handke, jacques rivette,  william sansom, bunuel and dali, tom bullough, aldius huxley, philip robinson, spendor, tzara,  wajcman, peter wohlleben,  prigogini,  paolo virno,  jeremy tunstall, theweliet,  taussig,  tricker,  vince,  thomss, williams,  vogl, new german critique,  e.p. thompson,  jean wahl, paul virilio, lotringer, christy wampole, verhaeghe, janet wolff, anna kavan, vergara,  uexkull,  couze venn, barry smart, vico,  vatimo, vernant, raoul vaneigem,  ibn warraq, vertov,  williams,  meiksins wood, norbert weiner, peter wollen,  h.g. wells,  michelle walker, , jeanne waelit  walters,  shaw and darlen, whorf,  ward and dubois,  john wright,  weinart, wolff, willis, wark, cosima wagner, j. weeks,  judith williamson,  welzbacher, erik olin wright, wittgenstein, kenny,  zeldin, wenders,  henry miller, wenkler, arrighi,  banks, innes, ushereood, kristeva, john cage, quignard,  t.f. powys, siri hustveldt, lem,  zelazny, mitchonson,  tsilolkovsky, toussaint, heppenstall, garrigasait, de kerangal, haine fenn, jean bloch,  geoff ryman, reve, corey, asemkulov, ernaux,  gareth powell, cory,  deleuze and guattari studies, cse, allain and souvestre, apolinaire, jane austen, john arden, aitmatov,  elizabth von arnim, paul auster, abish,  ackroyd, tom gunn, lorca, akhmatov, artuad,  simon armatige, albahari, felipe alfau, audem auden and soendor, varicco, barrico, bainbridge, asturias, ronan bennett, beckett, paul bowles, jane bowles, celine, bukowski,  wu ming, blissert,  kay boyle,  andrei  bely,  hugo barnacle,  BOLL,  isak dineson, karen blikson,  brodsky,  richmel crompton,  berry, barthleme,  mary butts, leonora carrington, cage,  chevhillard,  canetti,  cendres,  butor,  cortazar, danielewski,  bertha damon,  dyer, havier cercas, micheal dibden, marguerite duras, john donne, duras, durrell,  dorrie,  Fredric durrenmatt,  heppenstahl, eco, enzensberger, evanovich, fruentes,  farrell,  alison fell,  alisdair gray,  hollinhurst,  andre gide,  jean giono, gadda, henry green,  grass,  andre gorz,  william gibson,  joyce,  gombrowitz,  alex laishley, murakami,  herve guibert,  franz kafka,  juenger, junker, kapuscinski, laurie king,  kundera,  mcewan, ken macleod,  ian macdonald,  moers,  meades,  vonda macintyre,  nalmstom, maillert,  havier marias,  jeff noon,  anaus nin,  david nobbs,  peter nadas,  nabokov,  iakley, oates,  raymond queneau,  cesare pavese, paterson, ponge,  perte, perec, chinery, ovid,  genette,  kandinsky, robert pinget, richard piwers,  rouvaud, sloan, surrralist poetry, ilya troyanov, paul,raabe,  julien rios, arne dahl, pierre sollers, rodrigruez,  chris ross, renate rasp, ruiz, rulfo, tove jannsson, cabre,  vladislavic, tokarczuk, pessoa, jane bowles, calvino, lispector, lydia davis, can xue,  sebald, peter tripp,  hertzberg,  virginia woolf,  zozola, sorrentino, higgins,  v.w. straka, cogman, freud, jung, klein, winnecot, lacan,  fordham, samuels,  jung, freud, appignesai,  bjp, pullman, magnam, sybil marshall, mccarten,  galbraith, jewell,  lehmann,  levy,  levin, jung,  spinoza,  fairburn,  jung, sandler,  lacan,  laplanche,  pontalis, can, xue,  klein, cavelli, hawkins, stevens,  hanna segal, bollas,  welldon,  williams,  sutherland, buon,  symington,  morrison,  brittain,  sidoli, sidoli,  holmes, bowlby, winnecott,   bollas,  kalschiid,  malan, patrick casement,  anna frued, wittenburg,  liz wright,  fordham, fairburn, symington, sandler,  jung, balint,  coltart,  west, steiner,  van der post,  stern,  green,  roustang,  adrew samuels,  d.l. sayers,  salom, krassner,  swain,  rame and fo,  storr,  cogman,  hessen,  penelope fitzgerald,  cummings, richard holloway,  juhea kim,  glenville, heyer, cartland,  kim, cho,  atkinson,  james,  king, audten,  hartley,  du maurier,  bronte,  thomas, plath, leon,  camillairi, kaussar, fred fargas, boyd,  sjowall and wahloo,  pheby,  morenno-garcia, perrsson,  herron, nicola barker, arronovitch,  karen lord, stephen frosh, ernest jones, flamm o’brien, shin, mishra, chin jin-young and so on to the warm horizon

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names, most surnames (2)

Allow me to apologize again for this partial list of names in the library,  titles available on request…

amis, acker kathy, ackroyd peter, abbey edward, aldiss brian, alcott louisa, m. anonymous, aldiss brian editor, ackroyd peter, allende isabel, acker kathy, adair gilbert, adams richard, asimov isaac, alcott louisa m., austen jane, azhayev vasili, asimov isaac, austen jane, ableman paul, amis martin, atwood marga,ret adams richard, abish walter, burroughs edgar rice, benn melissa, butler samuel, blyton enid, beckett samuel, beckett samuel, blyton enid, billington rachel, burnford. sheila, burroughs edgar r,ice bentley phyllis, burney francis, burroughs edgar rice, burroughs edgar rice, compton-burnett ivy, bryant arthur, burchard johann, bryant arthur, brame charlotte, bryant arthur, boll heinrich, buckeridge ant,hony boston l.m., buchan john, brightwen mrs illustrated by f carruthers gold, bronte charlotte, bradbury ray, banks lynne reid, barr pat, betto fre,i baxter stephen, banks iain, bronte charlotte, bryant arthur, banks iain m illustrated by nick day, bradbury malcolm, bell adrian, ballantyne r,.m. balzac honore de, benson e.f, barth richard, barrie j.m, bainbridge beryl, bronte emily, ballard j.g, bronte charl,otte borden mary, black lionel , bellow saul, introduced b,y j. michael walton wilde oscar, salgado gamini, ready stuart, besier rudolf, salgado gamini, euripides, euripides, williams t,ennessee sophocles, ionesco. eugene, ibsen henrick, marillier chri,stabel jonson ben, bennett alan, ionesco eugene, brenton. howard, stoppard tom, pinter harold, aristophanes, arnold mathew, daisenberger j.a., stoppard tom, eliot t.s., creeley rob,ert chaucer geoffrey - edited by walter w. skeat, cronin a. j., carr j. l., cooper edmu,nd colette, chevalier tracy, cosse laurence, christopher joh,n chatwin bruce, collingwood h, cather willa, cattieuchlan, crane stephen, calvino italo, collier eric, cela camilo c,ela crichton micheal, carpino f. brancaccio di, comrie margaret s., chabon michael, crofts freeman wills, carre john le, crace jim, michael co,x and r. a. gilbert cheever john, cardetti raphael, coolidge clark, chevallier gabr,ial coxe harmon george, cronin a. j., cheyney peter, conway hugh, cullum ridgwell, christian catherine, crace jim, crace jim, dickens charles, dickens charles, dunn nell, defoe dani,el bernheim emmanuele, doctorow e.l., chesterton g. k., donleavy j.p., bronte charlotte, duggan alfred, delany samuel r. - petaja emil, durrell gerald, dallek robert, dickens charles, dickens charles, dalby richard ed,. dickens charles, chang jung, delacorta, dickens ch,arles dickens charles, conan-doyle arthur, du maurier daphne, dostoyevsky f.m, durrant valentine, durrant valentine, donoso jose, delillo don, delillo don, defoe daniel, defoe daniel, duke neville, colette, camus albert, cheever john, egan frank, eastwood helen, england barry, duke of windsor, eden emily, egan greg, edwardson ake, franken rose, fowles john, frzer douglas, fielding henry, frankau gilbert, featherstone don,ald fyson j.g., fitzgerald f. scott, fyfield francis, fletcher h.l.v., ford madox ford, fuentes carlos, fuentes carlos, fossum karin, fielding henry, fielding henry, fox gardner f., forester c.s., flaubert gustave, forsyth frederick, fitchett w.h., faulkner willi,am gallico paul, garfeld leon, galsworthy john, gaskin catherine, goldring douglas, greene graham, fletcher j. s., goldsmith olive,r grey zane, faulkner william, grisham john, greene graham, green f.l., delany samuel r, fenn george manville, gide andre, grimwood jon courtenay , gordimer nadine, grisham john, greene graham, greene graham, grass gunter, galsworthy john, gray malcolm, gou xiaolu, goldsmith oliver, greene graham, harsch rick, hill weldon, hall radclyffe, hibbert christopher, hanley james, hemingway ernest, hardy thomas, horvath odon von, conan-doyle arthu,r scott-giles c.w., kollings ken, herbert a.p., houellebecq m,ichel hawes james, holt anne, hopkins r. thurston, huxley aldous, hawkins paula, holwell william, indridason arnaldur, inoue yasushi, ishiguro kazuo, houellebecq michel, hesse hermann, hemingway erne,st hamilton peter f., howard cecil, hyland ann, jewett sara,h orne - with a preface by willa cather joinville & villehardouin, jelinek elfriede, james m. r., jonke gert, moyle j.b.  (translator) - justinian, johns capt. w.e., jerome jerome k, jenkins elizabet,h jenkins elizabeth, james m. r., kipling rudyard, kipling rudyard, kipling rudyard, kipling rudyard, kerr j. lennox, kipling rudyard, kilvert rev francis, kipling rudyard, kipling rudyard, kent nora, kipling rudyard, king stephen, kipling rudyard, kipling rudyard, kipling rudyard, khadra yasmina, khadra yasmina, kipling rudyard, kipling rudyard, lovell ann, koontz dean, lucas-philli,ps c.e. kafka franz, leyner marx, linklater eric, kipling rudyard, kipling rudyard, kennard mrs. edward, kipling rudyard, kipling rudyard, kipling rudyard, kipling rudyard, kipling rudyard, leskov nikolai, leyner mark, lewis norman, carre john le, lee laurie, kilver francis - edited william plover, leyner mark, laver james, lear edward, lever charles, laing e.t., carre john le, longmate norma,n lane jane, lewycka marina, baker margaret, llwelyn davis w,eeks forestier-walker and bor wenstrom o. edmund and harlock walter e., rensschler eric, st. claire byrne muriel, day mabel  (edited by), linklater eric, linklater eric, linklater eric, martel yann, lewis c. s., lee laurie, longford elizabeth, lewis c. s., mason a.e.w, maupassant guy de, maclean alistair, masters john, reich-ranicki marcel, melwood mary, mathews basil, mackenzie fait,h compton maxwell  w. b., macleod m kathleen, mcwilliam candia, mee arthur, marquez gabriel garcia mendoza plinio apuleyo, maurois andre, maclean alistair, mankowitz wolf, masefield john, marryat captain, macnamara brinsley, morris william, murdoch iris, mandelstam. osip, morris william, murdoch iris, mustoe anne, morris william, morris william, bradbury ray, gifford barry, miller henry, maturin charles, millet lydia, mitchison naomi, michener james, mcewan ian, miln lousie, jordan mitford mary russell, menglong feng, munthe. alex, moran lord, nicholl charles, new yorker the editors, oppenheim e.phillips, o'neill jamie, oppenheim e.phillips, nin anais, nairne a, hughes-pa,rry j. powell anthony, ponsonby d.a., price anthony, pangborn edgar, pollard velma, priestley j.b, barry n. malzberg & bill pronzini, powell anthony, nabokov vladimir, porter sheena, peacock thomas love, pratchett terry ian ,stewart and jack cohen powell anthony, percy w. s., needham violet, raymond diana, russo richard, rice margery spring, rabelais, reed thom,as baines russ joanna, remarque erich maria, pearson hesketh, rezzori gregor v,on rolfe fr- frederick baron corvo, sayers dorothy l. sayers  (translator), renault mary, raphael frede,ric phillips adam, robertson e.arnot, pavic milorad, robinson heath, rendell ruth, read miss, robinson heath, rice elmer, rackham arthur, rutley c. bernard, renault mary, steinbeck joh,n smith alexander mccall, spyris johanna, sabatini rafael, spalding francis, stables gordon, camus albert, sinclair upton, stowe harriet b,eecher shem samuel, sienkiewicz henryk, swift jonathan, samuel maurice, scott sir walter, scott paul, stowe harriet beecher, scott sir walter, skinner john, sterne laurence, sewell anna, stevenson d.,e. sitwell edith, strang herbert, surtees r. s., sidney sir phi,llip stout william, sigurdardottir yrsa, solzhenitsyn alexander, scott sir walter, stephenson neil, self will, styron william, scott sir walte,r scott sir walter, scott sir walter, slavicsek bill, sebold alice, smith f seymour, slaughter frank, seth vkram, trollope jo,anna henry fielding, trevelyan g. m., thelwell normal, trevor elleston, thompson flora, thompson flora, tey josephine, tyler j.e.a., tutton diana, tuchman barbara, tolkien j.r.r, duke of windso,r wheatley dennis, wilkinson gerald, wells h.g, rawnsley c,.f. and wright robert white patrick, winchester simon, waugh evelyn, wodehouse p.g,. walsh j. m., welles orson, wood mrs henry, wren p.c, waugh auberon, white. t. h., white t. h., westo kjell, webster jason, wain john, quin b. g., westall rob,ert white t.h, wodehouse p.g, wodehouse p.g, westerfield sc,ott wodehouse p.g, zweig stefan, wodehouse p.g, urquhart r.e., wyndham john, wodehouse p.g, wodehouse p.g, waugh evelyn, wallace edgar, vine barbara, white patrick, virgil, vesaas tarjei, varesi valerio, vine barbara, updike john, young francis brett, vaizey george, wilde oscar, verne jules, wheatley dennis, updike john, markham mrs, vine barbara, vine barbara, kilvert rev francis, kilvert rev francis, new towns act 1946 -, leyser henrietta, perry anderson malcolm bull jan breman rob lucas david simpson rachel malik alexander zevin marco d'eramo, shaw george bernard, shaw george bernard, shakespeare william, shaw george bernard, shakespeare william, shaw george bernard, shaw bernard, shakespeare william, shaw bernard, shakespeare w,illiam shaw george bernard, shaw bernard, shaw george bernard, shaw george bernard, shaw bernard, sturgess keith (edited), euripides, matsumoto ,seicho lewis naomi, lang andrew, goethe, aristop,hanes pevsner nicholas, alvarez a., de la mare walter, larkin phillip, townsend sue, kyd thomas, euripides, lawrence d,. h. anderson w.e.k., marvell andrew, allan c.f., de la mare ,walter illustrated by edward ardizzone mitchell tony, plath sylvia, hobbs jack and hobbs margaret, spender stephen, whittier john greenleaf, millay edna st. vincent, bridges robert, steakley james , arkell reginald, thompson francis, arkell reginald, townsend sue, stamp l. dudley, keats john, farmer john s. , gollancz sir isr,ael and  day mabel and serjeantson mary s hood thomas, milton john, walsh michae,l (editor) barkow al, british sociological association, burgess tyrrell, bentley michael, braudel fernand, de botton alain, ardrey robert, barrow r. h., bennett joan, aylward j. d., albert marvin h., alford violet, ali ayaan hirsi, cookson mrs. nesfield, cecil david, cudlipp hugh, conway gregory j., ccta, beard patten, clarke mike, deighton k, doyle clare, cottrell leonard, the ecologist, ellis chri, furmston m.p. and simpson a.w.b, elton lord, arellano ro,bert williams reese, brandys kazimierz, rich adrienne, lee laurie, khorsandi shappi, midgley mary, blackburn robin , butler samuel, butler samuel, burroughs william s, brooke nichlas, d.s.pugh d.j.hi,ckman c.r.hinings moliere, hamilton ronald, hill christopher, hackforth-jones g,ilbert hartley john, hervey h.e., kynaston david, herrmann paul, gregory otto, clay a.j. mackenzie, gombrick e.h. and kris k, kingsmill hugh, lloyd christopher, jarvns matt, labour party research department, jacob e. f., krake ken, longmate norman, golding louis, jackson major ,donovan james philip, lethbridge t. c., liechti elaine, ladurie emmanue,l le roy morris desmond, malina f.j, p.m., mundy, john h. carroll noel , middleton john , perniola mario, maxton james, paz octavio, menzies gavin, plaskitt harold and jrdan percy, woodward c. vann, rowntree b.seebohm and lavers g.r., weill herman n., wellman paul i, victor weybrigh,t and henry blackman sell scruton roger, smith j.c., taylor g. rattray, the times, thompson james westfall, taylor arthur, kulke hermann and rothermund dietmar, thomas mary, diamond jared, bacigalupi paolo, johnston william r., woods william, woodward sir llewellyn, shaw josephine, williams christopher, sidebotham helen m., williamson james a., tuchman barbara, smith wm. dr. (on the plan of), tafuri manfredo, bussi michel, rose richard , rawlinson george, rayner robert m., tisserand robert, ibsen henrick, ackroyd peter, powys t. f., sansom william, byatt a.s., bertrand a. and guillaumin a., bryant arthur, palgrave francis t., trewin j.c, morton a. l., mathews hazel, c. johnson a. h., gregory e. w., brogan d.w, tuchman bar,bara howard elizabeth jane, howard elizabeth jane, kerr philip , burton mauric,e borman tracy, kumar manjit, bryant arthur, moers ellen, simpson jacqueline, longmate norman, leasor james, piggott derek, lewycka marina, duncan f. martin and duncan  l.t., armstrong karen, rankin nicholas, catton eleanor, harrison harry and stover leon e., prose francine, jacob naomi, lovell terry, webb marion st.john, sheppard elizabeth sara, dickinson g. lowes, king laurie r, hawthorne james, levy yank, ley wilfre,d rooke kelman janet harvey and rev theodore wood, agar winifred and others, blom eric, house rich,ard field robert, van loon hendrick, hayward gallery, eitlinger l.d. a,nd holloway r.g. fougasse and mccullough, davison philip, turnbull agnes sligh, harrison sidney, ashley maurice, oakeshott w. ewart, steingarten jeffrey, linna vaino, brecht bertholt, benni stefano, winbolt s. e., plumb j. h., bryson bill, prebble john, knight margeret, quarrie bruce, spry constance, squires patricia, smith ali, hadley tes,sa eng tan twan, virno paolo, wilson sloan, campbell alan, cumming charles, pedly robin, clegg alec and megson barbara, holt john, laurie peter, motley john lothrop, beumarchais repertoire general du theatre francais, de la mare walter. mackenzie compton. farjeon  elea,nor lord dunsany  blackwood  algernon etc… betz, bjork samuel, campbell alan, archer thomas ,and amelia hutchinson stirling dollimore jonathan and sinfield alan, deegan denise, holdsworth r.v., durband alan, douglas lloyd c., ash william, dyer gillian and baehr helen, lindop audrey erskine, percival maciver, bellamy h.s., robbe-grillet alain, frith henry, barnett richard, bumpus t. francis, bartholomews, harrow school, martin george, hayward gallery, ducros louis, defrates joan,na ali tariq, lowry malcom (edited by harver briet and margerie bonner lowry), colour, robinso,n francis benton dr micheal j., rankin robert, leonard. jonathan norton, edey maitland a., trippet frank, norton-taylor  duncan, hamblin dora jane, edey maitland a., hicks jim, knauth. percy, dancona p and aeschlimann e, urwin e.c., joyce graham, leslie doris, oakeshott w. ewart, department of scial, and administrative studies oxford university grossman vasily, sinclair andrew, quennell marjorie and c.h.b, smith alexander mccall, crispen edmund, kipling rudyard, oscar wilde mervyn peake, proust marcel illustrated, by phillipe julian proust marcel, chesterton g. k., kipling rudyard, ardrey robert, pakenham elizabeth, bradford ernle, kohn george childs, mcmahon katherine, introduced by j. michael walton, allegro j.m., leakey richard e. lewin roger, sobel dava, lancaster john, ferguson neil, westlake mike, proust marcel ,illustrated by phillipe julian euripides, corvo frederick baron, ambler eric (editor), peacock thomas love, hamilton edward, schiller eric, rabelais, barnes ju,lian manchetter jean-patrick, indridason arnaldur, macculloch j.a., holwe w.v. and p,ountney m.t. burnell r.d., symons julian, kipling rudyard and balestier wolcott, farmer bernard j., macaulay rose, fisher h.a.l., winston richard, eliot george, cairncross alec, disraeli benjamin, litvinoff emanuel, cotterell arthur , peynet raymond, mitchison naomi , trevelyan g. m., ibsen henrick, euripides, thayer george, white patrick, froissart, muir anne ross, acton lord, fisher h.a.l., innes arthur d,. innes hammond, acton lord, trevelyan g. m., stein gertrude, minister of health and the secretary of state for scotland, royal commission on local government in england, committee on the management of local government, committee on the management of local government, committee on the management of local government, soros george, ullman james ramsey, girls own paper, girls own paper, fowles john and horvat frank, moore gerald, whyte william, h. taylor a. j.p., whitelock dorothy, zdenek marilee, valentine c. w., walker kenneth, thompson e. p., ward barbara and dubos rene, wedgewood c.v., robertson alec and stevens denis, ackroyd peter, aira cesar, aira cesar, skinner paul , johnson samuel, drinkwater john, wilson daniel h, stross charles, ackroyd peter, hoeg peter, aylett stev,e oman carola, jelinek elfriede, rohan zina, roberts ada,m vandermeer jeff, vandermeer jeff, vandermeer jeff, miske karim, russell sarah, naipal v.s., carrington neil. brodies notes, freeman anthony, corvo frederick baron, aylett steve, lovegrove james, baudouin charles, green miranda, gilliland alan, gll anton, hendy phil,lip kunstler junger, toulouse-lautrec henri (t.w. earp and g.w. stonier (translated into english by).), jefferson alan, richardson joy, lyons lewis, mathews john and mathews caitlin, pratchett terry, pratchett terry ,and baxter stephen robbe-grillet alain, west paul, pratchett terry and briggs stephen, mccaffery juliet, robert marcel and parmeggiani luigi - ilo-, storr vernon f., pratchett terry, mann philip, morris mary and o'conner larry , pratchett terry and baxter stephen, mcphee john, kightly char,les reeves compton, picard gilbert charles(editor), strong roy, clifton-tay,lor alex rupp gordon, tullii marci, goldsmith oliver, pinnow hermann, millington mal, atwood margaret, dickens charles, sterne laurence, everyman, caeser caius julius, wells h.g, kempis tho,mas a wynne pamela, pepys samuel, sterne laurence, scott sir walter, balzac honore de, jones edmund d., du maurier daphne, hutchinson lucy, weyman stanley j., browning robert, shakespeare william, chesterton cecil, stevenson r.l, trollope anthony, conan-doyle arthur, osborne charles, bresson robert, chalres pictet de geneva, lambourne nigel and renoir, parker steve, thomas graham  stuart, watkin david, hill ian, hlasko ma,rek lee harper, kureishi hanif, boyle t. coraghessan, gombrowicz witold, gombrowicz witold, gombrowicz witold, gombrowicz witold, gombrowicz witold, gombrowicz witold, gombrowicz witold, montergueil g., liu ken, robbe-grillet alain, banks iain, hobb robin, murphy derv,la gooch steve, dallek robert, giordano mario, tourtellot arth,ur bernon mcewan ian, orton joe, stoppard tom, stoppard tom, dorfman ariel, clifforfd leech, gerlech lynne, mishima. yukio, kurkov andrey, sante luc, robbe-grillet alain, heinlein robert, shute nevil, benacquista tonino, carofiglio gianrico, powers richard, steer john, johnson b.s., edgeworth maria, lowry malcolm, lowry malcolm, willis roy , le queux william, committee on the ,management of local government delillo don, perry sarah, expenditure committee (trade and industry sub-committee), pratchett terry, jencks charles, ewing julia horatia, vandermeer jeff, carpentier alejo, acker kathy, sudjic deyan, lindsey martin, reitz deneys, tolkien j.r.r, tolkien j.r.r, tolkien j.r.r, tolkien j.r.r, tolkien j.r.r, tolkien j.r.r, eggers dave, yurick sol, emecheta buchi, bryson bill, bryson bill, smollet tobi,as kapitanial thomas, wodehouse p.g, wodehouse p.g, wodehouse p.g, wodehouse p.g, wodehouse p.g, wodehouse p.g, wodehouse p.g, wodehouse p.g, stengers isabelle, browning. robert, walbank f. alan (,ed1ted and arranged by) roberts adam, kipling rudyard, ruskin john,

ellis john, hinton michael, chamoiseau patrick, martinez guillermo, willis connie, nemirovsky irene, rhys jean, joyce james, delillo don, mantel hilary, parker k. j., parker k. j., parker k. j., wilhelm richard, topol jachym, perez-reverte arturo, mcevoy j.p. and zarat,e oscar atwood margaret, sloterdijk peter, unit for research on the urban environment, perry steve, anderson kevin j, zahn timothy, hambly barbara, massey d, tucker paul hayes, anderson kevin j., smith p. robert, semprun jorge, crace jim, reynolds ingrid and nicholson charles, reynolds ingrid and nicholson charles bell ann, carre john le, grossman lev, tallis frank, hornby nick, tallis frank, newberry linda, coelho paulo, bryson bill, harris joann,e bond terance james, hopkins gerard manley, haviaras stratis, hoban russell, benson peter, pears iain, gray robert, wiggins todd, price richard, perez-reverte arturo, hoeg peter, flaubert gu,stave ivan illich irving k zola john mcknight, runyon damon, frei max, chaponnie,re 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"Matsubaya uchi Kisegawa, Sasano, Takeno, Seiro nana Komachi" or Kisegawa of the [house] Matsubaya, [whose attendants are] Sasano, Takeno from 7 beauties or courtesans of the Yoshiwara. 'seiro' is derived from a Chinese term connoting the blue/green wall of a stately mansion) refers to 'green houses' or brothels. It was common by the Edo period for 'seiro' to be read as 'Yoshiwara.' the print is signed Shômei (genuine) Utamaro hitsu, Publisher: Sen-Sa. The 7 prints were issued first with a yellow background, & later with a grey background. the courtesans and kamuro in this series coincide in the Yoshiwara guidebook or Saiken of spring 1794. Kisegawa was the name of the highest-ranking yobidashi courtesan in the brothel of Matsubaya, here shown with her hair down in the manner worn for the tsukidashi ceremony (the launching of a new courtesan)

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Kitagawa Utamaro, Tamaya uchi Akashi. Akashi of the Tamaya House. Seiro nana Komachi. original from British Museum. this is my edit

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Kitagawa Utamaro, Hanamurasaki of the Tamaya, from the series Seven Komachi of the Pleasure Quarters Seirō, Nana Komachi.jpg

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a friend reblogged this and gave me the opportunity to read again. the language here reminds me of Helmut Heißenbüttel, very spare, paring away at the possibilities …..

here the time spent imagining brings a basket of the living up hill to a sufficient pool where, in spite of the poor august rain they might spawn. we imagine a social taking times and energies with this very stream to produce the new generations. we are https://www.driftwork.work/tagged/heissenbuttel and https://aureliomadrid.tumblr.com/

the Biogea is the #HumanSocial with the #Biosphere amid streams

A short selection from Atlas of an Anxious Man, by Christoph Ransmayr

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Kitagawa Utamaro, The Lovers Oshichi and Kichisaburo original from The Metropolitan Museum of Art  the later is my edit

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Kitagawa Utamaro, A Geisha with a Shamisen as found at Metropolitan Museum and cleaned up lightly

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more chapters from Biogea

Second Meditation on our Ways of Knowing

To amaze the crowd and get himself talked about, an artist wrapped bridges, buildings, statues in public squares. I see, I hear, I know the world wrapped with words, sentences, images. We put birds in cages, fish in aquariums, plants in pots, children in schools, adults in factories and offices, women under veils or in houses, God under the low crushing masses of stone in the churches of the countryside and the naves of the cathedrals, our love letters in envelopes, lastly, for settlement in full, all the things of the world in prison under words, locked up behind their bars. This so-called artist gives expression to this general wrapping.

I would like to listen to the things freed of these packages, the way they presented themselves before finding themselves named. Betelgeuse disappeared into the bag of its star naming; I only eat asparagus or carrots folded in bunches in the daily newspaper of their appellation; I see winds and rains below their satellite image map; your first name and your words hide your body from me and even, almost, your voice, your voice which, in its turn, names me. For thousands of years, we have been licking things with our tongues, covering and daubing them so as to appropriate things for ourselves. If language boils down to a convention, this convention took place between the speakers without consulting the thing named, become as a result the property of those who covered it in this way with their drawn or voiced productions. Malfeasance analyzes these acts of appropriation.

Thus every inert object, every living thing as well, sleeps under the covers of signs, a little in the way that, today, a thousand posters shouting messages and ugly riots of color drown, with their filthy flood, the landscapes, or better, exclude them from perception because the meaning, almost nil, of this false language and these base images forms an irresistible source of attraction to our neurons and eyes. This appropriation covers the world’s beauty with ugliness. How to estimate at their exact thickness the layers of media under which all things lie, thus multiply wrapped under writings, folded under printed matter, gagged under images, hidden under sounds, choked under languages, lost under a hundred screens? A screen, quite a confession: obstructing as much as revealing.

One intelligent instructor once told me that certain of his pupils, among the most gifted, seemed to be grieving from having suddenly entered into writing. Did they remember a world without words, before any learning of saying and reading? Were they weeping over a second loss? Of what use to us were certain neurons of the left occipito-temporal region of our brain before we re-employed them recently – less than three thousand years – for reading? The most expert specialists in cognitive science pose this question as well.

Burying things in a first glove of words, a second pocket of writing, a third screen of printed matter, a thousand names. Black boxes, reliquaries, prisons, our safes belonging to the fabulously wealthy owners of everything in the world, without exception. The way our right-handers help themselves to the straight line, orientation or the law, our language conventions cover things so as to appropriate them.

Freed from these pockets, these chests, I would like to see them reborn under their code proper name. And myself, aren’t I called Michel Serres by pure and simple convention? The coding of my DNA says my true proper name. For liberating the things, emancipating them, making us be reborn with them in this way, this is knowing them.

Gaping Mouth At least the Romans took two or three days in order to rip up these fabrics, put holes in these pockets and hiding places, to break the padlocks, spread the lips of these faults and look the unworldly pit in the face, to hear the things as such, rid of these packages. They unglued these envelopes to better read the things, not to the letter, but unlettered! Forebears as ancient as their oblivion had invented gods in human form in order to cover, once again, the things with bodies, flesh, images and voices, meanings, the way we cover them with names or posters, with ideas, that is to say, with idols. Since they were afraid of the sea, they decked it out with an icon armed with a trident followed by a thousand young women whose fish tails veiled the waves with their charm; since they were distressed over the day and its light, they veiled it with the gentle name of Father; since lightning terrified them, they softened it with a Jupiter hurling spears. They hid the world by means of persons who resembled them, the way we hide it beneath screens where directors play the role of false gods.

No, these gods don’t say the sea or the trees, but are silent about them, if I dare say, hide them, plug them up, seal them off, distort them, prevent them from emitting; consequently, prevent us from hearing their rumbling; the gods transform their noise into pseudo-divine words, human in fact. Narcissistic, humans metamorphose the things of the world into women and men. We subjugate them; we politicize them beneath words and the best among us put them into equations. A little shadow of lie beneath the brilliance of truth.

The ancient Romans had the intelligence and daring to sweep aside that puppet population in cardboard décor for three days, to look these things, this world in the face through a black opening, and, through this gaping hole, listen directly to a frightful clamor. I admire their audacity in this and respect this festival. I confess it, I don’t know what is said there; but I wouldn’t want to die before understanding anything about it. Bring your ear near this abyss.

Mundus latet. The world is hidden. We hide the Biogea. Who sees it, yes, who hears it? Mundus patet: in those days, it opened, manifest, revealed itself, said itself, but we, Latins, no longer understand anything about the noise of the lead shot, latent, that emanates from this hole, about this tumult preparative to an earthquake, from which, patiently, the dazzling meaning of our languages emerged billions of years later. Mundus patet: I’ve decided that the dates August 24th, October 5th and November 8th shall become national holidays in Biogea. We’ll celebrate then the infernal hole, the source, the gaping mouth of every narrative in this book, the bottom of a horn of plenty that I’m trying to open today. For I’m searching for the meaning of this fundamental hubbub, in its nascent state. The Biogea rustles; it shouts on the nether side of our languages; without them; below them; outside them; beneath these lines, before the meaning of what I am saying gushes forth.

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Biogea first chapters

Sea and River

We made fun of him, old Taciturn; we thought he was cracked, driven crazy by strange mania. “Danger is near,” he would mutter into a beard he kept short; we used to laugh paying no heed to his prophecies, which were the result, we thought, of premature senility and also a lot of disgust for the present day that grumblers of a certain age like to proclaim. And he used to set off traveling, sometimes without saying where he was going; he would always come back more preoccupied.

Worse, one day we saw him buy, at the pit sawyer’s, beautiful arched beams that he set up in his farmyard as a kind of inverted framework, with the beam of the frame being quite wide and solidly jointed. Thin, skillful, always bent over hammer or pincers, he worked on it for months. The neighbors would hear the muffled blows of his mallet on the wooden dowels that held the mortise and tenons. Little by little, it took on the look of a boat whose square walls, pierced with scuttles, could pass for those of a house. “A boat on land, a ship in the sink,” we would sing. From time to time, he would transport tools on board, some livestock from his barn, even wild animals in cages and items of furniture. My word, this stubborn mule was moving out!

Since I ranked among his kin, one day he invited me to follow him on one of his peregrinations. It should be said that our hamlets were scattered over an immense plain shaped like a basin – round, low, deep – whose fertile soil and mild climate produced various vegetables and fruits; especially cherries, so famous all around that we made a fortune selling them by the cartload or, with honey, in jellies. Yes, a certain material comfort reigned there, and we didn’t understand Taciturn’s worries. So we left, the two of us, one morning, heading due south, and for several days we had to climb endless twists and turns along a high hill that led, after sixteen nights under the stars, to the shores of the sea. Not a word had surmounted the barrier of his teeth.

Arrived there, “Listen,” he said. I didn’t hear anything except the murmur of the wind above the short swell and the cries of a few seagulls, nothing else. Dazzled, I had never seen the ocean before. Sand, beach, seaweed, desert. “Listen more closely,” he insisted. And, indeed, in the depths of the Earth, beneath my feet, I thought I heard a muffled roaring, like an irregular rumbling, a kind of low thunder that made the ground shake like a wave. I even began to feel its vibration beneath the soles of my feet. I questioned the Old Man with my eyes.

He watched the open sea for a long while. “An interminable history,” he continued. The family elders heard it from distant forebears who heard it from even more remote ancestors and so on, a Grand Narrative to which many of us didn’t lend any credence and which recounted that, in the past, there hadn’t been any water there. Only a black hole, a bottomless cavity, an unfathomable cavern. One might have thought the opening of the Underworld. Yet, however far they were going, travelers could voyage for thousands of leagues along the rim of this enormous ditch; in a year on a horse at least, you might nonetheless travel around it, punctuated now and again, on the vertiginous heights, by wide cataracts through which the waters of several rivers would rush, rivers whose estuaries or deltas mark, today, the locations of these cascades.

“Older if that is possible, other idle tales also claimed that in even more distant times, the sea had, like today, already invaded this void. That it would dry up, that it would fill up again, I tell you in rhythms of tens of thousands of years. That this fluctuation depended on those earthquakes whose terror you’ve often felt and which either closed the pit or, on the contrary, opened it to the immense ocean that surrounds the Earth through the columns located to the far west of us.” Taciturn then stretched his arm toward the setting sun. “The blows of the quakes either broke its dikes or obstructed them, accordingly. So the waters entered our oblong pit surrounded by the inhabited lands in torrents; conversely, at the end of several times a thousand years, they evaporated, and everything became blue-green and black again.”

He turned around, with his back to the sea. Our homeland stretched to the horizon in front of us, a broad, cheerful and hollow dome. As far as the eye could see, plowed fields, cherry orchards, meadows for sheep, adobe structures for families, metal sheds for tools, wooden barns for livestock. “A happy country, isn’t it?” he said. I gave my approval with my brow. “To enjoy such a view here, you see that we’re perched on the ridge of a kind of partition, on a thin and long crest that protects our basin from the  waters of the sea. What would happen if it broke?”

“Now, ever since my youth, my grandfather often took me here and told me that his great grandfather had told him that, ever since his youth, the water had been rising. Yes, for as long as the family memory has been passed on, its level has been continuously rising. Measure it, beneath your feet; the sea now reaches  to the brim.”

“I had you come for a second reason. There is a new one: an event that none of these old traditions tell of, taking place for some months. That noise you hear, you might think, wouldn’t you, that it’s a rumbling similar to the beginnings of an earthquake. Never spoken of, nor heard; nothing about it in any narrative. Yet listen, listen to it well. I’ve been listening to it for seven years. You hear it too, I see. It hasn’t stopped growing since I’ve been coming here. What is it saying? Does it have some meaning? Who is speaking? Can we understand its warning? Will I one day be able to decipher this call from the Earth? Listen to its voice. Our Earth is speaking, you feel it; it’s recounting something to us, the way your mother did, evenings, when you weren’t able to get to sleep; it’s saying what it knows. What? Who is it speaking to? I’ve been studying it for ages, this voice, I don’t dare speak about it to anyone since, in the village, everyone takes me for a fool, a visionary, a mystic, a bad citizen who takes no interest in political affairs.”

“Nevertheless here is my translation of the rumbling: it’s announcing that the wall is cracking and is going to collapse, yes, the one on which, uneasy, we’re perched. I have a feeling its panel is going to fall down. Without knowing it, we’re living, we stockbreeders or farmers, in the navel of a great cavity defended by a screen so thin and strained that it threatens to burst under the pressure of the water. It’ll crack. On that day of wrath, the sea of the middle of the earth will invade our basin, will fill the sacred earth of the ancestors. Quickly, to the evacuation points! That’s why, with my trembling old man’s hands, I’m attempting to build a boat. A madman’s ship on dry land. And I’m stacking up in its holds, as in a strong box, everything that could be of use in the event of danger. As for the Rest, every man for himself!”

“But no one listens to me. Everyone is fascinated by interesting disputes, tragic quarrels between people, villages and hamlets, by conflicts between petty leaders and their permanent theater. They don’t know what they’re doing; they love violence so much that it increases like a flood that’s always ready to cover the entire Earth. Will they also understand that, some day?” He accented this word with a citation of his heel. I didn’t mention that we were walking bare foot.

About what hidden knowledge was this madman who had the appearance of a wise man holding forth? I listened to his wild yarn with a well-raised child’s courteousness. Taking our time and regaining silence once again, we went back down to the village. Over long months, he no longer spoke to me, stricken by the melancholy that I neither believed in nor understood the predictions he claimed were scientific.

Right up until the morning when – with a sudden cry whose splitting intensity increased in frequency to the top of the scale and which all at once occupied the entire expanse of celestial space above the basin – everything cracked. And the water came, from the left, from the right, in high waves, at ground level, in cataracts and rushing tides, like a tsunami. The mountain partition had just given way. Splashing about amid the whirlpools of a flaming current and almost drowning in the viscous mud, I then hurtled down, luckily, not far from his baroque structure, oval and square. Who felt like laughing at it on this day? At the end of a boat hook, he held a hawser out to me and, hanging on the hook, I climbed aboard, among the calves, cows, pigs and broods. Around him was his little family of beasts, stupefied, – each of them going about with its chirping or terrorstricken baying – potted flowers, spilt seeds, scythes, pitchforks, yokes hanging from hooks.

We sailed forty days, worried, tossed about on board in a thick fog, up until a relative drop in the water level. The boat’s keel touched bottom then on the flanks of Mt. Ararat, amid the doves and olive trees. There was nobody left, villagers or peasants, a human silence and desert. Beneath the returned sun, port of us, extended the calm weather of that immense pool that would later be called the Black Sea, at the bottom of which have slumbered, ever since, my drowned forebears and my country, villages, cabins and plowed fields, beneath the furrows of which sleep, still today, even more deeply, enormous tectonic tensions.

Two memories culminate this adventure, ancient: the deafening noise of the break at its beginning and the dazzling rainbow on the last day of the flood, the first where we made peace with the world. The numerous legends from which I drew this narrative, amusingly putting my own image in it, recount, in various languages, that upon landing old Taciturn planted vines, no doubt Noah’s plants, and that – seasons gone by, grape harvests done, wine tapped – he got drunk on joy; or brewed beer and did the same with that. These fermented drinks saved this remainder of humanity from the bad waters; the artificial paradise of biotechnology emerged from this hellish deluge.

Under a new sky and in a steady breeze, this group who escaped catastrophe was born, new, from the cruel mother sea. First rebirth.

Hymn to the Sea Paradise

I have nevertheless lived the paradise of the waters. Yes, I have inhabited the sea, I have frequented the high seas, just as uninhabitable as the high mountains, pack ice, or the desert. Everywhere else, habitation remains possible; but in these high inhospitable places the planet, inhuman, reveals itself. Nevertheless, when I lost the sea, on land, things became lackluster. The sea and I used to vibrate with joy.

At the end of our meals on the sea, we would be growing impatient with dessert when, invariably, one of us, abandoning the fruit, would cry out: “How about going out to see the sea?” In the time it took to eat lunch we already missed her, whereas sailing, we hardly ever left her. More than for bread or wine – in love, passionate, mystic – we were hungry and thirsty for her. As our horizon, we had the sea. As our mistress, we had the sea. As our goddess, we had the sea. As our house, the sea. As our path, garden, hammock and table, the sea. As our love, the sea. Pitching and rolling, paradise, a dance in aperiodic rhythm of lovers and beloved combined. We had the sea as our friend.…

… but as our enemy, the sea, all the more beloved because her triumphant fury made us tremble, the devastating sea, indifferent to our suffering like a cruel mistress, the sea that could suddenly present itself before the bow like a high and unique cliff or mountain face collapsing, shattered, over the quickwork like a tsunami, the sea that sometimes forced us to stand, upright, on the cabin or bridge walls while the floor turned vertical, the sea terror that haunted the nights of insomnia beneath the

hooting of the foghorn, the abominable sea, wife and daughter of the breeze, passive before the wind, the sea that swept away the tackle and swallowed lives, the deadly sea.…

… the living sea, vital, vivifying, first mother of the living species, the maternal sea, soft as a baby’s skin, without a ripple, rocked in the calm after the storm, flowering breast, uterus, fertile womb, generous source of fecundity, parturient and nourishing to the point of repletion, multiply populated with monsters and marvels whose forms made us toss and turn at night in our bunks, clawed by the nightmares of the deep, the primeval Eve sea from whose wombs we all came, seaweed, plants and animals, bacteria and mammals, reptiles and whales, even humans, billions, then millions of years ago.…

… the sea soiled by hoodlums, violators of their first mother – quick, let squadrons of pirates rise up and embark with me to stop and examine these matricidal polluters, to seize them and throw them, naked, into dungeons – the seas, victims and soon to be dead, who will defend them except the sailors.…

… the beautiful woman sea, open vulva, dear mother, tender lover, lovable sister, a pretty girl unpredictable in her whims, a fearsome, fickle mistress, a cruel mother whose head bristles with snakes, a sorceress enchantress, producer of love and despair potions.

On land, the rest of my dull hours from then on found their only recompense in nostalgia for this transcendent lover, in whose vagina, curled up, I used to live, sleep, think, inhabit. I still carry her in me like a drowned romance.

Yes, I mourn for the sea whose demanding beauty outmatches that of my words, all too human. And I forget the beauty of lives. Life at sea quickly attains the status of a work of art because inhabiting that part of the uninhabitable Biogea requires a reversal of the body and soul that can convert the sailor to the divine. I remember twilights during which, standing on the deck sextant in hand, I would be waiting for a star to light up to take a bearing. It sometimes happened then that my attentive gaze immediately changed into that of the sea itself, whose unique eye, a green spherical abyss, was contemplating, ecstatic in its bitter tears, the blue ubiquity, the black presence of the divine.

I was seeing like the sea.

Flood

I became an ocean sailor to get the better of my father, the bargeman. Let me recount the fresh water tales of my youth. The longueil and the traversier, these are the names of the two cables that, wound on four winches called the papillonnage, tied our dredger, right and left, to the two shores of Garonne. For seen from a plane, the four steel cables, the first two of which, in front, opposed the current while the two at the stern stabilized the pontoon, must have formed the edges of a transparent butterfly covering the width of the river with its spread wings. Not only has my old trade of being a freshwater forced-labor convict – fishing sand, breaking rocks, compacting roads – vanished, but I bemoan the silence of some fifty words I only used with ten bargemen, my father and brother, all vanished: thus speaking this mute language all alone,  I ruminate over a dialogue of the dead.

Practical in normal times, this four-cabled mechanism became dangerous during floods because, obstructing the river’s width, it intercepted the heaps swept along by the inundation. Suddenly, from the invaded plain and flooded farms the deluge uprooted tree trunks, stumps, entangled bushes, carried furniture away from houses, sometimes framework taken from destroyed roofs, animal corpses, sometimes survivors … an entire floating and swept-along bagassé that we, balanced on our fragile sapinous, had to prune with an ax so that the pieces, caught astride the cable would slide off and speed along with the current. They formed cataracts whose strength threatened to rip out our moorings.

Aboard, there were never more than four or five of us keeping watch: the boss, tall and thin, with a small mustache, prominent cheekbones, his two sons, quasi-twins, the dredger, stocky, strong, with his cap constantly pulled down over his baldness, and sometimes his apprentice. Everyone dressed in overalls. I particularly remember our silence and the noise whose pregnance often prevented us from hearing each other and which, since, has never left my ears; the tinnitus I’m permanently afflicted with reproduces with high fidelity the whistling and silky sound of the implacable mass of moving water that, overflowing its regular bed, was then occupying the flood plain, kilometers-wide between the hills called, like us, the Serres. At least my sense of hearing has never left Garonne.

There were, indeed, no more than four or five of us to cut loose the bagassé, plug the leaks in the dredger which might be ripped open by the heavy impacts from the stumps and beams, but above all continuously watch over the winches following the height of the low water level. Occasionally, plunged in that intense rumbling and sometimes blinded by the fog, we no longer knew our position very well; lost, it was nonetheless necessary to stay in the lowwater channel, for a sudden retreat on the part of the flood would have deposited our flat-bottomed and high-belfried old pontoon boat forever among the apple trees. Without detaching any cable, we had to keep them under tension. Give them slack and take it in again, depending; tie them again to some willow or some more solid mooring. They mustn’t break, either, under the weight of the bagassé, on pain of letting us slide downstream in the flaming current, helpless. Standing up to the force of the water, fighting against the debris it was bringing, saving what could be saved, boats, tools and persons: for how long? That depended on the bad will of that bitch of a Garonne.

Clinging to planks or scattered beams, sometimes unfortunate people appeared, surprised by the water, engendered before us from the fog, people born from Garonne; when – sculling – we could stem the current, we’d pluck them like plums and hoist them aboard our gabarrots. One day around noon, in the very middle of the river, in the most inflamed section of the rapids, an entire haystack went by, the type that farmers in the past would pile up during the harvest for animal litters, on top of which a peasant, hunting rifle in hand, was shooting off salvos to call for help. Turning and rolling amid the eddies, the fragile pile, close to coming undone, glided before our eyes at an insane speed, uncatchable, continued downstream and shattered on the archways of the Pont de Pierre, whose light was blinded by the rise of the waters. Decapitated, the poor wretch? We never did learn. Drowned, surely.

Day and night without interruption, our watch on the river lasted as long as the flood. Sometimes three days, sometimes a week or more. We’d sleep in turns down in the hold, on the sheet metal sole. We didn’t always bring enough food. Bread that quickly went stale, ham, Cantal cheese, harsh red wine. The work would warm us up, as well as a brazier with holes, well-stocked with charcoal. We always came back safe and sound, exhausted, famished, black with smoke, stinking filthy, bearded, hands bloodied from having handled so much the ax and prickly cables, disembarked from hell, wild-eyed, proud.

Since neither bank nor shore existed any longer, it was impossible to land. Hardly a few kilometers from our house, itself flooded, we used to find ourselves isolated in the middle of Garonne, as though we were sailing on the other side of the Atlantic. I’ve known two worlds: that of today in which, near and next to everyone, everyone communicates with everything and everyone, and the other, the preceding one, in which a meticulous cutting up of islets would toss our detached lives about amid a space of scattered tatters. I quite like my granddaughter’s recent remark: why did that stupid Robinson forget his mobile phone?

Were our fathers, in the middle of the river rumbling with fury, further separated from their wives than in ordinary times and on land? Georges, the dredger’s wife was an alcoholic and would fall into fits of delirium tremens; cold and hard, the boss’s wife didn’t engage in tenderness. Might as well work. Might as well sail. Might as well fight against the current. Might as well spend your days and nights in the cold and risks. Might as well brave the elements. At least, adventure. Without love, work, the danger of death. Simultaneously, the dredger’s wife drank because the man would work without taking any interest in her, and the other had hardened for the same reason, alone the two of them, without knowing whether their husbands would return or perish drowned amid the April waters. Former times, force of the world, separation of things, solitude of the sexes. But no distance separated the boss from the dredger, the fight on the barge having long since erased class warfare. In solidarity, they appreciated one another; they wouldn’t have been able to live without each other; faced with risk, they formed a silent couple where each knew what the other was doing; they loved each other through Garonne, their common mistress. And the bitch, passionately loved, was not easy to deal with, either.

I was a child of sound enough health, but with a soul that was undermined by this same lack of love. This frail being had to face those wars that transformed part of the population, quiet and sane when living in peace, into a neurotic band of implacable policemen, denunciatory ideologues, sicarians, torturers, against a fringe group of heroes. How does this metamorphosis happen? I don’t know, but I’ve seen it happen in certain circumstances. Sometimes, even today, I have the feeling that this or that person around me, patient and gentle, sometimes learned, could suddenly transform into an indiscriminate murderer should events and dogma shift. And the group frightens me; violent, always ready to become ferocious. Persons sometimes kill; the collective always kills.

From 1936 to 1956, four or five wars, tens of millions dead. I therefore did the same thing as Georges and the boss: devoted myself to things, river or sea. But the same metamorphoses have to be faced there. Neither good weather nor the summer lasts; floods come, along with storms, cyclones, masses of water in motion, the cataracts that turn the boat into a ping-pong ball struck at random by a hammer. It wants your hide, like the traitor of just now, but without any underhanded intention or hatred. If you get out of it, you’re reborn from the ordeal without any resentment or spirit of vengeance. On the contrary: with the peaceful pride of having drunk the wine of the strong. I have therefore withstood, adult, proud, yes, full of pride, yes, Sea Ten and younger, those ferocious floods.

Dreamed enough, for, suddenly, the traversier is vibrating with something other than bagassé. A message of horror. Entangled in the cable and the branches, a corpse, a man in sandals, which we see from behind, his black hair scattering in the current, with streaks of blood, torn shirt, arms extended. Who is it?

This had already happened to us, while dredging one peaceful summer morning in low waters; the bucket chain had torn the cut from the repugnant remains of a murder so old that the police, once called, never discovered the identity of the victim; the murderer must have lived, for a long time, covered by the statute of limitations. But I could see that this dead man didn’t drown either; the current turned him over; he had wounds on his face like hammer blows; a gaping cut opened his belly, like that of a pig emptied of its entrails. I still have in my memory today this apparition of crime, of the victim, of death in person, like the human image in miniature of the infernal commotion amid which we had been thrown. In the blind wall of nonsense, this corpse pierces a window through which a truth passes. What to do with the body? We didn’t need this extra load, but we couldn’t let it go drifting off. We made it slide off the cable into the sapinou and hauled ourselves toward the dredger. After having hoisted it onto the deck, we wrapped it in the greasy rags that were lying around the motor and left it in the hold until the flood stopped. Amid the permanent dangers and in the middle of the wild waters, we had perhaps even subsequently forgotten about it a little. No, I sometimes went down from the deck into the hold in order to see, in the darkness, this torn body. I was reflecting: since it was still floating underwater, it had, perhaps, been thrown upstream so that we would discover it at the obstruction of our cables and so that, with everyone blocked by the water, no one would be able to inform the police for a long time. During the recovery, Georges and the boss had exchanged a quick look, strange, filled with emotion, ill at ease, informed in some way. Did they know him? Did they not want to say anything about it? I kept

quiet. But I swore to know more.

I’m stopping here, reader, at the risk of disappointing you. I was going to, as you guessed, tell a detective story. Now no longer, not here. We see ten of them a day on television, and even more in the store windows of the bookstores. Every time, ad nauseam, the interest of the mystery to be solved strings together a villainous crime, a gun or a dagger, red blood and a murderer, crime and punishment, base passions, terror and pity. Archaic, ineradicable, monstrous, unconscious, human sacrifice returns every day among us. Not here; never again that. We claim to have eradicated guilt, of religious origin, the learned say. How does it happen that secular and atheist societies, drugged by spectacle, continually invite us to search for he who has killed? To find the guilty party. We’re bathed more by narratives whose interest comes from spilt blood than by floodwaters. I’m cutting my narrative, suspenseful you suppose, far from gorging myself on corpses and convictions. Leave the police in peace, and let our sleeping base passions lie.

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Biogea cover

For Beatrice, A guide in the life and the Earth sciences.

My soul today is becoming a tree. Yesterday, I felt it to be a spring. Tomorrow?… Will I rise with the smoke of an altar, or will I hold the altitude above the plains, with the feeling of power of the vulture on its slow wings; do I know it? Paul Valery, Dialogue de l’arbre [Dialogue of the Tree] Œuvres, II, Pléiade, p. 178

  … for forests, hills, fire and water alone have voices, speak a language. We’ve lost the secret of it, although the memory of an august accord, of the ineffable alliance of intelligence and things, cannot be forgotten even by the lowliest. The voice that we no longer understand is still friendly, fraternal, a maker of serene peace. George Bernanos, L’Imposture [The Imposter] Pléiade, p. 326

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ON THE DEATH OF Mrs. JOHNSON, [STELLA.] by Jonathan Swift

THIS day, being Sunday January 28th, 1727-8, about eight o'clock at night a servant brought me a note, with an account of the death of the truest, most virtuous, and valuable friend, that I or perhaps any other person ever was blessed with. She expired about six in the evening of this day; and, as soon as I am left alone, which is about eleven at night, I resolve, for my own satisfaction, to say something of her life and character. She was born at Richmond in Surrey on the thirteenth day of March, in the year 1681. Her father was a younger brother of a good family in Nottinghamshire, her mother of a lower degree; and indeed she had little to boast of her birth. I knew her from six years old, and had some share in her education, by directing what books she should read, and perpetually instructing her in the principles of honour and virtue; from which she never swerved in any one action or moment of her life. She was sickly from her childhood until about the age of fifteen: But then grew into perfect health, and was looked upon as one of the most beautiful, graceful, and agreeable young women in London, only a little too fat. Her hair was blacker than a raven, and every feature of her face in perfection. She lived generally in the country, with a family, where she contracted an intimate friendship with another lady of more advanced years. I was then (to my mortification) settled in Ireland; and, about a year after, going to visit my friends in England, I found she was a little uneasy upon the death of a person on whom she had some dependance. Her fortune, at that time, was in all not above fifteen hundred pounds, the interest of which was but a scanty maintenance, in so dear a country, for one of her spirit. Upon this consideration, and indeed very much for my own satisfaction, who had few friends or acquaintance in Ireland, I prevailed with her and her dear friend and companion, the other lady * Mrs. Dingley., to draw what money they had into Ireland, a great part of their fortune being in annuities upon funds. Money was then at ten percent. in Ireland besides the advantage of turning it, and all necessaries of life at half the price. They complied with my advice, and soon after came over; but, I happening to continue some time longer in England, they were much discouraged to live in Dublin, where they were wholly strangers. She was at that time about nineteen years old, and her person was soon distinguished. But the adventure looked so like a frolic, the censure held, for some time as if there were a secret history in such a removal; which, however, soon blew off by her excellent conduct. She came over with her friend on the in the year 170--; and they both lived together until this day, when death removed her from us. For some years past, she had been visited with continual ill-health: and several times, within these two years her life was despaired of. But, for this twelve-month past, she never had a day's health; and properly speaking, she hath been dying six months, but kept alive, almost against nature, by the generous kindness of two physicians, and the care of her friends. Thus far I writ the same night between eleven and twelve. Never was any of her sex born with better gifts of the mind, or more improved them by reading and conversation. Yet her memory was not of the best, and was impaired in the latter years of her life. But I cannot call to mind that I ever once heard her make a wrong judgment of persons, books, or affairs. Her advice was always the best, and with the greatest freedom, mixed with the greatest decency. She had a gracefulness some-what more than human in every motion, word, and action. Never was so happy a conjunction of civility, freedom, easiness and sincerity. There seemed to be a combination among all that knew her, to treat her with a dignity much beyond her rank: Yet people of all sorts were never more easy than in her company. Mr. Addison, when he was in Ireland, being introduced to her, immediately found her out; and if he had not soon after left the kingdom, assured me he would have used all endeavours to cultivate her friendship. A rude or conceited coxcomb passed his time very ill, upon the least breach of respect; for in such a case she had no mercy, but was sure to expose him to the contempt of the standers by; yet in such a manner as he was ashamed to complain, and durst not resent. All of us, who had the happiness of her friendship, agreed unanimously, that, in an afternoon or evening's conversation, she never failed before we parted of delivering the best thing that was said in the company. Some, of us have written down several of her sayings, or what the French call Bon Mots, wherein she excelled almost beyond belief * See Vol. VI. Part II. p. 185.. She never mistook the understanding of others; nor ever said a severe word, but where a much severer was deserved. Her servants loved and almost adored her at the same time. She would, upon occasions, treat them with freedom, yet her demeanour was so awful, that they durst not fail in the least point of respect. She chid them seldom, but it was with severity, which had an effect upon them for a long time after. January 29th, My head aches, and I can write no more. January 30th, Tuesday. This is the night of the funeral, which my sickness will not suffer me to attend. It is now nine at night, and I am removed into another apartment, that I may not see the light in the church, which is just over against the window of my bedchamber. With all the softness of temper that became a lady, she had the personal courage of a hero. She and her friend having removed their lodgings to a new house, which stood solitary, a parcel of rogues, armed, attempted the house, where there was only one boy: She was then about four and twenty: And, having been warned to apprehend some such attempt, she learned the management of a pistol; and the other women and servants being half-dead with fear, she stole softly to her dining-room window, put on a black hood, to prevent being seen, primed the pistol fresh, gently lifted up the sash; and, taking her aim with the utmost presence of mind, discharged the pistol loaden with the bullets, into the body of one villain, who stood the fairest mark. The fellow, mortally wounded, was carried off by the rest, and died the next morning, but his companions could not be found. The Duke of Ormond hath often drank her health to me upon that account, and had always an high esteem of her. She was indeed under some apprehensions of going in a boat, after some danger she had narrowly escaped by water, but she was reasoned thoroughly out of it. She was never known to cry out, or discover any fear, in a coach or on horseback, or any uneasiness by those sudden accidents with which most of her sex, either by weakness or affectation, appear so much disordered. She never had the least absence of mind in conversation, nor given to interruption, or appeared eager to put in her word by waiting impatiently until another had done. She spoke in a most agreeable voice, in the plainest words, never hesitating, except out of modesty before new faces, where she was somewhat reserved; nor, among her nearest friends, ever spoke much at a time. She was but little versed in the common topics of female chat; scandal, censure, and detraction, never came out of her mouth: Yet, among a few friends, in private conversation, she made little ceremony in discovering her contempt of a coxcomb, and describing all

his follies to the life; but the follies of her own sex she was rather inclined to extenuate or to pity. When she was once convinced by open facts of any breach of truth or honour, in a person of high station, especially in the church, she could not conceal her indignation, nor hear them named without shewing her displeasure in her countenance; particularly one or two of the latter sort, whom she had known and esteemed, but detested above all mankind, when it was manifest that they had sacrificed those two precious virtues to their ambition, and would much sooner have forgiven them the common immoralities of the laity. Her frequent fits of sickness, in most parts of her life, had prevented her from making that progress in reading which she would otherwise have done. She was well versed in the Greek and Roman story, and was not unskilled in that of France and England. She spoke French perfectly, but forgot much of it by neglect and sickness. She had read carefully all the best books of travels, which serve to open and enlarge the mind. She understood the platonic and Epicurean philosophy, and judged very well of the defects of the latter. She made very judicious abstracts of the best books she had read. She understood the nature of government, and could point out all the errors of Hobbes, both in that and religion. She had a good insight into physic, and knew somewhat of anatomy; in both which she was instructed in her younger days by an eminent physician, who had her long under his care, and bore the highest esteem for her person and understanding. She had a true taste of wit and good sense, both in poetry and prose, and was a perfect good critic of style: Neither was it easy to find a more proper or impartial judge, whose advice an author might better rely on, if he intended to send a thing into the world, provided it was on a subject that came within the compass of her knowledge. Yet, perhaps, she was sometimes too severe, which is a safe and pardonable error. She preserved her wit, judgment, and vivacity to the last, but often used to complain of her memory. Her fortune, with some accession, could not, as I have heard say, amount to much more than two thousand pounds, whereof a great part fell with her life, having been placed upon annuities in England, and one in Ireland. In a person so extraordinary, perhaps it may be pardonable to mention some particulars, although of little moment, further than to set forth her character. Some presents of gold pieces being often made to her while she was a girl, by her mother and other friends, on promise to keep them, she grew into such a spirit of thrift, that, in about three years, they amounted to above two hundred pounds. She used to shew them with boasting; but her mother, apprehending she would be cheated of them, prevailed, in some months, and with great importunities, to have them put out to interest: When the girl lost the pleasure of seeing and counting her gold, which she never failed of doing many times in a day, and despaired of heaping up such another treasure, her humour took the quite contrary turn: She grew careless and squandering of every new acquisition, and so continued till about two and twenty; when, by advice of some friends, and the fright of paying large bills of tradesmen, who enticed her into their debt, she began to reflect upon her own folly, and was never at rest until she had discharged all her shop-bills, and refunded herself a considerable sum she had run out. After which, by the addition of a few years and a superior understanding, she became, and continued all her life a most prudent oeconomist; yet still with a strong bena to the liberal side, wherein she gratified herself by avoiding all expence in cloaths, (which she ever despised) beyond what was merely decent. And, although her frequent returns of sickness were very chargeable, except fees to physicians, of which she met with several so generous that she could force nothing on them, (and indeed the must otherwise have been undone;) yet she never was without a considerable sum of ready money. Insomuch that, upon her death, when her nearest friends thought her very bare, her executors found in her strong box about a hundred and fifty pounds in gold. She lamented the narrowness of her fortune in nothing so much, as that it did not enable her to entertain her friends so often, and in so hospitable a manner as she desired. Yet they were always welcome; and, while she was in health to direct, were treated with neatness and elegance: So that the revenues of her and her companion, passed for much more considerable than they really were. They lived always in lodgings, their domesticks consisting of two maids and one man. She kept an account of all the family-expences, from her arrival in Ireland to some months before her death; and she would often repine, when looking back upon the annals of her household bills, that every thing necessary for life was double the price, while interest of money was sunk almost to one half; so that the addition made to her fortune was indeed grown absolutely necessary. [I since writ as I 'found time.] But her charity to the poor was a duty not to be diminished, and therefore became a tax upon those tradesmen who furnish the fopperies of other ladies. She bought cloaths as seldom as possible, and those as plain and cheap as consisted with the situation she was in; and wore no lace for many years. Either her judgment or fortune was extraordinary, in the choice of those on whom she bestowed her charity; for it went further in doing good than double the sum from any other hand. And I have heard her say, she always met with gratitude from the poor: Which must be owing to her skill in distinguishing proper objects, as well as her gracious manner in relieving them. But she had another quality that much delighted her, although it may be thought a kind of check upon her bounty; however it was a pleasure she could not resist: I mean that of making agreeable presents, wherein I never knew her equal, although it be an affair of as delicate a nature as most in the course of life. She used to define a present, That it was a gift to a friend of something he wanted or was fond of, and which could not be easily gotten for money. I am confident, during my acquaintance with her, she hath, in these and some other kinds of liberality, disposed of to the value of several hundred pounds. As to presents made to herself, she received them with great unwillingness, but especially from those to whom she had ever given any; being on all occasions the most disinterested mortal I ever knew or heard of. From her own disposition, at least as much as from the frequent want of health, she seldom made any visits; but her own lodgings, from before twenty years old, were frequented by many persons of the graver sort, who all respected her highly, upon her good sense, good manners, and conversation. Among these were the late Primate Lindsay, Bishop Loyd, Bishop Ashe, Bishop Brown, Bishop Stearn, Bishop pulleyn, with some others of later date; and indeed the greatest number of her acquaintance was among the clergy. Honour, truth, liberality, good nature, and modesty, were the virtues she chiefly possessed, and most valued in her acquaintance; and where she found them, would be ready to allow for some defects, nor valued them less, although they did not shine in learning or in wit; but would never give the least allowance for any failures in the former, even to those who made the greatest figure in either of the two latter. She had no use of any person's liberality, yet her detestation of covetous people made her uneasy if such a one was in her company; upon which occasion she would say many things very entertaining and humorous. She never interrupted any person who spoke; she laught at no mistakes they made, but helped them out with modesty; and if a good thing were spoken, but neglected, she would not let it fall, but set it in the best light to those who were-present. She listened to all that was said, and had never the least distraction, or absence of thought. It was not safe nor prudent, in her presence, to offend in the least word against modesty; for she then gave full employment to her wit, her contempt, and resentment, under which even stupidity and brutality were forced to sink into confusion; and the guilty person, by her future avoiding him like a bear or a satyr, was never in a way to transgress a second time. It happened one single coxcomb, of the pert kind, was in her company, among several other ladies; and, in his flippant way, began to deliver some double meanings: The rest flapt their fans, and used the other common expedients practised in such cases, of appearing not to mind or comprehend what was said. Her behaviour was very different, and perhaps may be censured. She said thus to the man: "Sir, all these ladies and I understand your meaning very well, having, in spite of our care, too often met with those of your sex who wanted manners and good sense. But, believe me, neither virtuous nor even vicious women love such kind of conversation. However, I will leave you, and report your behaviour: And, whatever visit I make, I shall first enquire at

the door whether you are in the house, that I may be sure to avoid you." I know not whether a majority of ladies would approve of such a proceeding; but I believe the practice of it would soon put an end to that corrupt conversation, the worst effect of dulness, ignorance, impudence, and vulgarity, and the highest affront to the modesty and understanding of the female sex. By returning very few visits, she had not much company of her own sex, except those whom she most loved for their easiness, or esteemed for their good sense; and those, not insisting on ceremony, came often to her. But she rather chose men for her companions, the usual topics of ladies discourse being such as she had little knowledge of, and less relish. Yet no man was upon the rack to entertain her, for she easily descended to any thing that was innocent and diverting. News, politics, censure, family-management, or town-talk, she always diverted to something else; but these indeed seldom happened, for she chose her company better: And therefore many, who mistook her and themselves, having solicited her acquaintance, and finding themselves disappointed after a few visits, dropt off; and she was never known to enquire into the reason, or ask what was become of them. She was never positive in arguing, and she usually treated those who were so, in a manner which well enough gratified that unhappy disposition; yet in such a fort as made it very contemptible, and at the same time did some hurt to the owners. Whether this proceeded from her easiness in general, or from her indifference to certain persons, or from her despair of mending them, or from the same practice which she much liked in Mr. Addison, I cannot determine; but when she saw any of the company very warm in a wrong opinion, she was more inclined to confirm them in it than oppose them. The excuse she commonly gave when her friends asked the reason, was, That it prevented noise, and saved time. Yet I have known her very angry with some whom she much esteemed for sometimes falling into that infirmity. She loved Ireland much better than the generality of those who own both their birth and riches to it; and, having brought over all the fortune she had in money, left the reversion of the best part of it, one thousand pounds, to Dr. Stephens's Hospital. She detested the tyranny and injustice of England, in their treatment of this kingdom. She had indeed reason to love a country, where she had the esteem and friendship of all who knew her, and the universal good-report of all who ever heard of her, without one exception, if I am told the truth by those who keep general conversation. Which character is the more extraordinary, in falling to a person of so much knowledge, wit, and vivacity, qualities that are used to create envy, and consequently censure; and must be rather imputed to her great modesty, gentle behaviour, and inoffensiveness, than to her superior virtues. Although her knowledge, from books and company, was much more extensive than usually falls to the share of her sex; yet she was so far from making a parade of it, that her female visitants, on their first acquaintance, who expected to discover it, by what they call hard words and deep discourse, would be sometimes disappointed, and say, they found she was like other worsen. But wise men, through all her modesty, whatever they discoursed on, could easily observe that she understood them very well, by the judgment shewn in her observations as well as in her questions. 

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me-ti said, the division of labour

Me-ti said: The division of labour is certainly an improvement. But it has become an instrument of oppression. If you tell a worker, he should above all be able to construct motorcars well, you are telling him he should, for example, let his wages be determined by other people who understand such things, good entrepreneurs or good politicians. If you tell a doctor he Should above all be a good tuberculosis specialist, you are telling him he shouldn’t concern himself with building houses, which cause tuberculosis. The division of labour is so organized that exploitation and oppression can still continue as if it was also a form of labour some people have to provide. (Brecht)