A City of Prose Andrew O’Hagan in Tavistock Square
"For a few days after the explosions, the atmosphere was bad on the buses. Passengers were looking into every face as they sat on a Number 30 from King’s Cross, and if the face happened to be brown, they looked to their bag or backpack. That is how fear and paranoia work: they create turbulence in your everyday passivity, and everyone was affected after the attempted bombings on 22 July in ways that won’t quickly go away. In the realm of paranoia, the second bombings were more powerful than the first, for they made it clear how very gettable we are, even in a culture of high alert. To anyone with imagination (or who knows anyone who’s ever had a second stroke) the most recent attack brings a dimension of constant threat. No one needed to die for this to take effect: 7 July showed us what death on the bus or the Tube looks like; the second attack showed that these images wouldn’t be allowed to remain just a bad memory." Read more at: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n15/ohag01_.html
peoms apr 04
what time is it with you
>lines and dishes i have strewn >over the sea, under the sea >are ready now >no testing while i reach your number, >press OK > >midnight washes over me >and you go out in kansas, >it's 15 degrees > >did you know this time thing was arranged >to serve the modern world, its navies >telegraphs and trains? > >midnight after holding tight >conspires to twinkle every glass >from winnepeg to monterey > >and i'm out cold >way past the middle of the x >where body heat and hot water bottle >switched > >it was a hundred years ago. >of course you do
Looking Glass - Church & 1 block north of Wellesly on West side
Bookshops:
Atticus (Harbord) - rather expensive
To Women's Bookstore (Harbord)
Tequila Bookworm - Queens / Spadina
halifax
hydra steon
cafe julians
epicurious morsels
john douls
barrington st
record man
farmer's market (sat am, brewery)
einstein's clothes line
khyber ecentre for the arts; record shop
marquee / hell's kitchen
trident (books, cafe, teas)
hollas st, boutique
folklore centre
ns folk art
NSCAD
