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  • wreckage upon wreckage

    Eagleton on (Jameson on) Benjamin, and specifically on his Angelus Novus: The angel can’t move because his wings have become entangled in a storm, and Jameson seems uncertain about what this storm represents. Benjamin actually tells us: it is the myth of perpetual progress. What stops the angel from waking the dead here and now,…

  • pronunciation guidance

    A big part of the life-in-a-new-country experience is exposure to and (if you refuse the specious role of the “ex-pat”) learning a new language. For reasons that are presumably obvious, I have not yet been able to take formal in-person lessons in Swedish, but I have done over 400 days of Du*ling* at this point;…

  • jag gillar stora båtar och jag kan inte ljuga

    Even the Swedes had an East India Company. Image from a very warm day wandering in Göteborg.

  • vattnet är djupt

  • 22JUL21 / accessions

    To be written about for the BSFA Review, sent to Sweden with rather impressive haste by the publisher, MIT Press. (I hope they’re aware of the rather slow turn-over of reviews at the Review.) Wells is definitely a feature in the retrospective and historical sectors of the intellectual zeitgeist at present; the historical rhyming of…