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[proximoception]

I received two each of a couple books from my birthday list, and it's been over a month since their purchase so I assume amazon won't be thrilled to take them back. One's Chekhov's complete plays, the new Norton hardcover. The other a few of you might be interested in, it's an expensive, bizarre four-paperback boxed set called Wonderwater. Anne Carson wrote one, is the thing (the other three are by Helene Cixous (!), John Waters (!!) and some sculptor named Louise Bourgeois); each paperback annotates drawings, or titles of drawings, by someone named Roni Horn. Anne's centers on Holderlin rather than Horn, in a characteristic series of quotations, poems, mini-essays and indescribables. I'll send the volume and/or set to the interested person (drop a comment if you are) who wants it most and/or is cheapest to send to. Carson shouldn't moulder on my shelf or in a warehouse. And this doesn't sound like it will make it to many libraries.

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[princenarcissus.livejournal.com]

My hat is certainly in the ring! The combination of Cixous, Waters, Carson, and Bourgeois (all of whom I adore) is such a bizarre and intriguing juxtaposition that it almost reminds me of something Carson herself would write about . . . TV Men: The Sequel?

By the way, ever read any fiction by Cixious? There's much more to her than the always-anthologized "Laugh of the Medusa" . . .

p.s.

[princenarcissus.livejournal.com]

I just read in another comment that you'll be in LA shortly (assuming you mean Los Angeles and not Louisiana) . . . any chance you'll have spare time to meet for coffee or a drink and chat about books? Apart from my partner and about two close friends, I've been STARVING for a healthy dose of intellectual conversation ever since we moved here . . .

My Email: delphic78@yahoo.com

And let me know if you need used bookstore recommendations while you're down here . . .

Re: p.s.

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

We're going to be in and out, I think, since my Dad wants to be taken to Tucson to look at manuscripts. I'll let you know by email if that changes, and hope we can raincheck if it doesn't. I guess I'll flip a coin for the Carson, heads you, tails nightspore.

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

And it was heads! Email a mailing address and I'll try not to procrastinate. Though I guess I can deliver it in person if some time frees up.

All I've read through of Cixous' is her Dora/Freud play, which was rather moving.