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Submarine Villegiatures and Spidery Jonquil: Jules LaForgue’s “Salome”

I’m a little late to the party, but Jeff Vandermeer proposed recently on his blog the World Cup of Fiction, in which he encouraged people to share favorite pieces of fiction from different countries. I thought I’d mention French writer Jules LaForgue (1860 — 1887) and his short story “Salomé,” which I first read in [...]
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The Library I Ching, Hexagram 12

This continues a series I started here about a Library I Ching, in which I take a book I own and open it randomly to two passages with a question in mind, as if using the I Ching, and see what wisdom is to be found as one passage changes into the other. Like that [...]
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