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Fezziwig was renowned for how much fun he was…and even though he’s a giant demonic bird, he keeps up that reputation! What’s in store for him and his ol’ pal Zuggy is anyone’s guess!
Disjecta Membra: Claude Lévi-Strauss & André Breton
Victor Cova introduces a 1941 exchange between Claude Lévi-Strauss and André Breton.
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Neither a borrower nor a lender be…unless it can prevent the apocalypse! Zuggy makes payment of unimaginable importance…but will it be enough to save the world?
The Noguchi Museum
Visiting the Noguchi Museum recently, I was struck by the difficulty of sculpture as art: how it's constrained by its physical presence to a degree that other media, like music, painting, and poetry, are not.
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The cosmic wheel turns and turns as the true importance of several characters is revealed. What does Fezziwig have in store for Rooge? What does Zuggy have in store for Fezziwig?
Warm Midlife Grooves
Kevin O’Rourke reviews the album Sons Of by Sam Prekop and John McEntire.
Apologia: Why Do We Write?
Genese Grill's introduction to her forthcoming essay collection, Portals (Splice).
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Shock follows shock as Fezziwig goes walks comes face to face with Zuggy, Kathy, and Rooge. Will this horrible scene be the end of our heroes, or…our villain?
Hyperacuity — Baudelaire’s Late Fragments
“But it is not specifically in the political institutions that one will observe the effect of universal ruin, or of universal progress — it hardly matters to what name it goes by. It will be seen in the degradation of the human heart.”
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The world is ending, and it really seems that the bad guys have won…but don’t count Zuggy and Kathy out of the fight! Zuggy has a plan; it’s just cash he lacks!
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More foreboding and signals of approaching doom accost our heroes and villain. A demonic sometimes-goose can only mean one thing: the end is nigh!
The Vollard Suite
“You see this truculent character here, with the curly hair and mustache?” Picasso asked about the Vollard Suite, “That’s Rembrandt. Or maybe it’s Balzac; I’m not sure. It’s a compromise, I suppose. It doesn’t really matter. They’re only two of the people to haunt me. Every human being is a whole colony.”