With wishes for a new year of happiness and health and fulfilment, we welcome you back in 2022.
We hope you and your loved ones are safe. In addition, we wish to announce the release of two new tracks for the Opendoor Edition of Waywords and Meansigns.
Professor Foolscap recorded a passage from the outrageous Haunted Inkbottle scene, Book I.7, in which Shaun upbraids his twin brother Shem’s hygienic and artistic habits. Listening to this piercing passage we might wonder if there’s a little bit of Shaun and a little bit of Shem in each and everyone, and whether their quarreling and bickering inside of us bring forth a chaos that is perilous but potent and that makes life worth living.
Don Ward recorded a passage from the riotous and tumultuous Book I.4. Beginning with “And so it all ended”, the passage promises to end a litigation or an animosity that plagues the world of the Wake. But we know, and as Don Ward’s poignant reading reflects, that all endings are defenseless against the constant Wakean flow of words and sound and half words and half sounds, and questions persist in their unanswerablity: “It was life but was it fair? It was free but was it art?” Help us not answer these questions!
Professor Foolscap, recorded page 185 line 27 through page 186 line 18.
Don Ward recorded page 93 line 22 through page 94 line 22.
Thanks to our contributors and listeners & may the Wake be with you!
Talia would like to send Derek her best regards and wishes, and to thank him for continuing to work for a much needed social change.
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