Owlstain, FZ 23632
CACA : Château Methuen
He’s been here ever since, juggling his duties with such savoir faire, meting out his passions with such skill that it seems at times he’s a cryptic scorpion (C. slaluhai Stermer, 1898) inscrutably scrambling, scrabbling, scaling and scooting about the full-moon-dappled bark of a rare tree or a log of New Lexican provenance (Dalbergia glomerata Hemsley, por ejemplo): Here he is, for instance, overseeing the SCAT’s print-monkeys putting out this week’s edition from the Vieux Port’s Melos e Artes, and yet there he goes, for example, scurrying off to catch a sloop to the Far Gimmals whence he’ll ferry back his conjoint journalistic sketches with (ever the punctilious professional) Mona Coltrane, his reportage de guerre supplemented by Adam Trembart’s tintones, via carrier pigeon and mail skiff. And all the while he’s indulging his penchant for what Proust so admirably summarized, thus: “L’habitude de penser empêche parfois d’éprouver le réel, immunise contre lui, le fait paraître de la pensée encore.” That is, the work he does here at ISCOPHYS, largely in CACA parce qu’ “il n’y a pas une idée qui ne porte en elle sa réfutation possible, un mot le mot contraire” (ibid.), c’est-à-dire, the reality of fiction and the fiction of reality.
Skid Slekton | Owlstain SCAT | 22 November 2000 | full text : html.
Skid Slekton | Owlstain SCAT | 17 March 1999 | full text : html.
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