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Untitled (Penny Arcade Portrait of Lauren Bacall) (1946) by Joseph Cornell<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2022 Having been a Bernard Szajner enthusiast for many years it’s good to see his music receiving some belated reappraisal. David McKenna<\/a> talked to Szajner about his Visions Of Dune<\/em> album (which is being reissued by InFin\u00e9<\/a> next month), laser harps, The (Hypothetical) Prophets, and working with Howard Devoto.<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0Priscilla Frank<\/a> posts some big views of Marjorie Cameron’s occult paintings as a preview of the forthcoming exhibition at MOCA Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles.<\/p>\n \u2022 Fascinating reading in light of the recent <\/em>kerfuffle<\/a> over True Detective<\/em>, Christopher Loring Knowles<\/a> on the possible sources of HP Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos.<\/p>\n Those who set up oppositions between the electronic technology and that of the printing press perpetuate Frollo\u2019s fallacy. They want us to believe that the book\u2014an instrument as perfect as the wheel or the knife, capable of holding memory and experience, an instrument that is truly interactive, allowing us to begin and end a text wherever we choose, to annotate in the margins, to give its reading a rhythm at will\u2014should be discarded in favor of a newer tool. Such intransigent choices result in technocratic extremism. In an intelligent world, electronic devices and printed books share the space of our work desks and offer each of us different qualities and reading possibilities. Context, whether intellectual or material, matters, as most readers know.<\/p>\n Alberto Manguel<\/a>, lucid as always, on the act and import of reading.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u2022 “It’s time to give prog rock’s artist-in-residence Roger Dean his due,” says Amber Frost<\/a>. No argument there, I did my bit in 2010<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 “Why do the covers of so many self-published books look like shit?” asks B. David Zarley<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Mixes of the week: FACT mix 455 by Airhead<\/a>, and Secret Thirteen mix 225 by Clock DVA<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Core77: Rain Noe<\/a> chooses favourite skyscraper photos by Russian urban explorers.<\/p>\n \u2022 “O, Excellent Air Bag”: Mike Jay<\/a> on the nitrous oxide fad of the early 19th century.<\/p>\n \u2022 Nick Carr<\/a> goes in search of Manhattan’s last remaining skybridges.<\/p>\n \u2022 Lauren Bacall<\/a> at Pinterest.<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0Sha\u00ef Hulud<\/a><\/em> (1979) by Zed (Bernard Szajner) | Welcome (To Death Row)<\/a><\/em> (1980) by Bernard Szajner | Person To Person<\/a><\/em> (1982) by The (Hypothetical) Prophets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Untitled (Penny Arcade Portrait of Lauren Bacall) (1946) by Joseph Cornell. \u2022 Having been a Bernard Szajner enthusiast for many years it’s good to see his music receiving some belated reappraisal. 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