> My own private Alexandria

WORKS THAT MENTION ANIMALS
Response to a request by Robert Walser (1903)
00:05:26 mp3 / No problems / ISBN 0940322986
KEYWORDS: Art, story, parataxis, loneliness, loveliness, knife in eyeball, theatricality,weeping, humility.

A truce for the creatures by Colette (1904)
00:04:16 mp3 / No problems / ISBN 0374131023
KEYWORDS: Art, story, life of animals during and after war, ducks, animals and their hope in us, flowers, the pecking order is wrong, tit, rabbits, almonds, petals, the bombs have stopped and life can go on.

The birth of art by Maurice Blanchot (1971)
00:27:05 mp3 / Mangled French / ISBN 0804727597
KEYWORDS: Art, history of art, caves, Lascaux, Georges Bataille, art as wonder, body as signature, myth of origins, fear of death, exigency of life.

From slices of knowledge by Henri Michaux (1954)
00:06:08 mp3 / One cough / ISBN:0520212290
KEYWORDS: Sharks, truth as impediment, hating kids, Clarity through hallucination.

Underlined sections from Orthodoxy by G K Chesterton (1908)
00:04:32 mp3 / No problemo / ISBN 0898705525
KEYWORDS: Theology, Love, topsy turvy, Christ, pessimists, Satan, gravity, love again.

The rest is silent by Chris Marker (1995)
00:14:14 mp3 / Mispronounced Russian, French, Brazilian, German, Japanese, Italian, probably English too / ISBN 1881390101
KEYWORDS: History of silent film, no such thing as silent film, shoot the piano player, fixing emotions, Benshi, love of Clara Bow, large faces, color as sex.

What is a myth by Karen Armstrong (2005)
00:14:47 mp3 / No problem except the war / ISBN 184195716X
KEYWORDS: History, myth as another form of knowledge, myth is not reason.

Gastro-porn by Alexander Cockburn (1977)
00:30:19 mp3 / Uncontrollable laughter, mispronounced French, German, English / ISBN 0860911764
KEYWORDS: History, cookbooks as pornography, Brillat-Savarin is a long-winded bore, South of France, cuisine and imperialism, cold fish and mayonnaise.