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Le Chasseur by Lupe Vasconcelos<\/a> who was profiled this week at Unquiet Things<\/a>, and whose work may also be seen at the Ars Necronomica art show<\/a> in Providence, RI, until the end of the month.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 “After a morning\u2019s writing, Stevenson would entertain himself with music, particularly the flageolet, which he played so badly \u2018people fled from the sound\u2019.” Peter Moore<\/a> reviewing Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa<\/em> by Joseph Farrell.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Jon Hassell’s 1981 album, Dream Theory in Malaya: Fourth World Volume Two<\/em><\/a>, will be reissued next month.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mixes of the week: Secret Thirteen Mix 228 by Arma Agharta<\/a>, FACT Mix 614 by Do Make Say Think<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yet, entertaining as all this is, in a macabre key, the dead are hard to think about\u2014and, in many ways, to read about. Unlike animals, which L\u00e9vi-Strauss declared were not only good to eat but bon \u00e0 penser, too, I found that I averted my eyes, so to speak, several times as I was reading this book. Not because of the infinite and irreversible sadness of mortality, or because of the grue, the fetor, the decay, the pervasive morbidity\u2014though Laqueur\u2019s gallows humour about scientific successes in the calcination of corpses can be a bit strong\u2014but because the dead present an enigma that can\u2019t be grasped: they are always there in mind, they come back in dreams, live in memory, and if they don\u2019t, if they\u2019re forgotten as so many millions of them must be, that is even more disturbing, somehow reprehensible. The disappeared are the unquietest ghosts. Simone Weil writes that the Iliad<\/em> is a poem that shows how “force…turns man into a thing in the most literal sense: it makes a corpse out of him.” But Laqueur is surely right to inquire why that thing, the “disenchanted corpse…bereft, vulnerable, abject”, is a very different kind of thing from the cushion I am sitting on or even my iPad (which keeps giving signs of a mind of its own). I have always liked Mme du Deffand\u2019s comment, when asked if she believed in ghosts. A philosopher and a free thinker, she even so replied: “Non, mais j\u2019en ai peur.” (“No, but I am frightened of them.”)<\/p>\n

Marina Warner<\/a> reviewing The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains by Thomas Laqueur<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 New Worlds<\/em> magazine<\/a> at the Internet Archive. Not a complete run but it’s a start.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Brigit Katz<\/a> on breakthroughs in the scientific search to replicate\u00a0psilocybin.<\/p>\n

\u2022 The relaunched (and slightly renamed) Manchester Digital Music Archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Dennis Cooper’s: Robert Altman Day<\/a> (restored\/expanded).<\/p>\n

\u2022 RM Rhodes presents the art of Philippe Druillet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Fragile Self<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 Dream Lover<\/a><\/em> (1964) by The Paris Sisters | Dream Street<\/a><\/em> (1966) by Henry Mancini | Dream Letter<\/a><\/em> (1969) by Tim Buckley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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