The Ark Codex project’s greatest strength might simultaneously be the greatest stumbling block it poses for the reader, that is, the way in which it proposes to use language. By its own account, the Ark Codex project is “an authorless book object of art & text” that acts as “a self-organizing & self-contained archeological archive of language for the sake of language”.
In John Greiner’s collection of short stories, Shooting Side Glances, the cast of characters ranges from a criminal lusting after a gray homburg that he may or may not have seen in Vienna, a woman who is trying to get downtown – “any downtown will do” – and a mother who may have accidentally killed her son as a result of not feeding the birds.
Within the three or four shelves that comprise the philosophy section of the Shakespeare & Company library, you’ll find an entirely unassuming book. Unassuming not in its size, but in its modest attempt at distilling the entire project of American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce.
She entered the café as I was reading one of the shorter stories in Borges’ Fictions. Let me explain two things before I continue…