see reviews/interviews.

on the Resurrectionists — discovered or imagined by Luc Sante, whose blog this is — "a shadowy group devoted to finding the poetry hidden in the works of the most prosaic authors. The members never made their identities public, although rumors flew during their heyday, from the late 1950s to the mid-'70s." Another gang of Resurrectionists was 19th century Scottish grave robbers.

see also http://www.flickr.com/photos/the5003/

ex Joseph Gowan, Preaching and Preachers: Criticisms and Suggestions (London, 1902) ¶ an individual who might have fallen into preaching, a century and more ago, might fall into teaching now, where homilies and sermons, &c &c still obtain… interesting discussion — in the context of Todd's Index Rerum, and in other ways too. ¶ brings to mind this, just encountered : "Don't worry about originality, but be self-critical…" Yvonne Rainer, in Letters to a Young Artist (2008: ISBN 0-9773680-0-9)

The Fiction of Memory, This argument relies on short excerpts from many writers. ¶ includes this from Emerson's "Quotation and Originality" — "Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity and by delight, we all quote. It is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent." ¶ NYTBR 14 March 2010

YouTube videos relating to Kakutani article, and comments (17 march 2010)