quote [ His boss could not read Fuller?s reports, but found them perfectly intelligible when read aloud by the author. Fuller thought he remedied the problem by breaking up the text in the same way he read it aloud. Though this made the written text readable, it was not acceptable: it looked like ? eh, well, poetry, and the Phelps Dodge Corporation was not into poetry. ]

quote [ Revisiting the work of the American futurist and self-described agnostic mystic, Robert Anton Wilson, forty years since the publication of his Schrödinger?s Cat Trilogy, Sean Kitching finds the author?s questing vision more vital and necessary today than it has ever been. ]

quote [ About thirty kilometers off the coast of Chile is a small teardrop-shaped island called Mocha, inhabited by the indigenous Mapuche people. The island was well known among sailors, especially pirates and privateers, who used the island as their supply base, exchanging steel and manufactured goods for livestock, corn and potatoes. ]

quote [ Both he and Kearse described prison language as an extension of hip-hop, sharing some of the same words and being similarly stylized and creative. ?It?s that same spirit, same desire to play with words,? said Reilly. ?There?s so much creativity in there, and wit.? ]

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quote [ We're joined by legendary author Alan Moore to discuss evil architecture, magic & political power, fate & free will, and the enduring appeal of Lovecraft. ]

quote [ Walt Whitman’s influence on the creative output of 20th-century Russia — particularly in the years surrounding the 1917 Revolution — was enormous. For the 200th anniversary of Whitman's birth, Nina Murray looks at the translators through which Russians experienced his work, not only in a literary sense — through the efforts of Konstantin Balmont and Kornei Chukovsky — but also artistic, in the avant-garde printmaking of Vera Ermolaeva. ]

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quote [ In the early 1730s, a mysterious editor (known only as ?Hurlothrumbo?) committed to print a remarkable anthology: transcriptions of the graffiti from England?s public latrines. For all its misogynistic and scatological tendencies, this little-known book of ?latrinalia? offers a unique and fascinating window into Georgian life. Maximilian Novak explores. ]