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Czech poster for Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist. Art and design by Miroslav Pech\u00e1nek, 1972.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2022 “Acknowledgements are not part of the novel; in fact, they break the spell the author has spent 200 or more pages weaving. We should take a book on its merits, knowing as little about the author as possible. As one reader put it to me, ‘the end of a book is time for thinking about the book, not for an acceptance speech’.” John Self<\/a> on dedications and acknowledgements.<\/p>\n \u2022 Mixes of the week: a Power Ambient mix by A Strangely Isolated Place<\/a>, and a mix for The Wire<\/em> by Nexcyia<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Spoon & Tamago: 3D-scanned stones create vessel for human-made interventions<\/a>.<\/p>\n Weeks turned into months. Slowly it dawned on me that I was performing the role of Boswell for a man who might be: a) a put-on maestro or arcane troll; b) a fiction writer slash performance artist; or c) a lunatic. But by his own admission King had tagged me with a familiar spirit. Whether or not he was telling the truth was irrelevant at this point. I could feel something squatting on my soul. I needed to see what it was.<\/p>\n Kent Russell<\/a> on looking for demons in a disenchanted world<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u2022 A trailer for Mad God<\/em><\/a>, Phil Tippett’s 30-years-in-the-making animated feature.<\/p>\n \u2022 New music: Vesta<\/em><\/a> by Azu Tiwaline, and Right, Right, Right<\/em><\/a> by Nils Frahm.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Dennis Cooper’s: Max Hattler<\/a> Day.<\/p>\n \u2022 “Marcel Duchamp was not a thief<\/a>.”<\/p>\n \u2022 RIP Jean-Louis Trintignant<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Demons Of Rage<\/a><\/em> (1972) by Nik Raicevic | Shall Come Forth The Demons<\/a><\/em> (1991?) by Yuri Morozov | Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light<\/em><\/a> (2011) by Earth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Czech poster for Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist. Art and design by Miroslav Pech\u00e1nek, 1972. \u2022 “Acknowledgements are not part of the novel; in fact, they break the spell the author has spent 200 or more pages weaving. We should take a book on its merits, knowing as little about the author as possible. 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