Holland Cotter featured Mimi Gross' painting
-which we saw and greatly admired at the Ceres opening
last night- (Ceres Gallery:547 West 27th Street)
in the Friday, February 16 NY Times Art section

Agents of Change: Women, Art and Intellect
that included a link to the

The Meaning Forum
which features a painting by Toni Simon!

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Contradicta recently Translated Into Icelandic!

Thanks to

Tiubusund tregawott for the link.

PS Shanna Compton featured on the same site.

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SPD has sold out the first shipment of *fait accompli* from Heretical Texts.
Until some have been shipped you can order from this page:

Factory School

This Side of Paradise

"Q- Do you want a lot of money?
A- No. I am merely afraid of being poor.
Q- Very afraid?
A- Just passively afraid.
Q- Where are you drifting?
A- Don't ask *me*!
Q- Don't you care?
A- Rather. I don't want to commit moral suicide.
Q- Have you no interests left?
A- None, I have no more virtue to lose. Just as a cooling pot gives off no more heat, so all through youth and adolescence we give off calories of virtue. That's what's called ingenuousness.
Q- An interesting idea.
A- That's why a good man going wrong attracts people.They stand around literally *warm themselves* at the calories of virtue he gives off. Sarah makes an unsophisticated remark and the faces simper in delight-'How *innocent* the poor child is!' They're warming themselves at her virtue. But Sarah sees the simper and never makes the remark again. Only she feels a little colder after that."

-F.Scott Fitzgerald

*This Side of Paradise* was Fitzgerald's first book, begun when he was still a Princeton undergraduate and published when he was 23.

Today is fait accompli's 4th birthday.

Come celebrate the publication of *fait accompli* the book-
from Factory School's Heretical Texts
at Unnameable Books
456 Bergen Street
(off Flatbush Avenue)
Tuesday, February 27
at 8pm.
The book begins with our first post
on this date in 2003.

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^Gary Sullivan, The Great Enabler*

Stan Apps posted a personal and passionate essay about Gary Sullivan's poetics-
"Gary’s poetics consists of decisively rejecting mysterious theatricality, and thereby creating an aesthetic of material accountability. The words in Flarf poems are materials that have been put there precisely so that a mysterious theatrical tone of all-knowingness from the beyond cannot develop. Instead, evidence of human foolishness and goofiness is there instead. The tone of Flarf poems is not really (or not only) a tone of willed outrageousness or silliness, as it may seem to be; the tone is a rejection of mysteriousness, and therefore an acceptance of words and phrases that can be accounted for as merely human..."

read the entire post right now on

refried ORACLE phone

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Digitalized Thought from Peter Ciccariello [via the
Buffalo Poetics List]

Eoagh 3


Eoagh Issue 3: Queering Language

Lou-Andreas Salome meets Kenny Goldsmith
(an article in the Valve by Ray Davis) (Nov, 2005)


Salome What She Watched


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updated factory schooll link to ::fait accompli:: the book:

fait accompli from Heretical Texts

Contradicta



It is a fine thing to take pleasure in it but, as with so many other things, we can think too little or too much. Too little produces a mental mannikin, too much a chattering puppet.


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We never know what we are thinking until we think about it.

Thanks to

incli(NATION)
for the link to our Walter Benjamin and Blogging post from Dec 12, 2003, and to Mark Woods and Theresa Duncan for their recent links.

Subject: Book Party for ::fait accompli:: from Heretical Texts
Place: Adam's Books/ aka Unnameable Books
456 Bergen Street, off Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn
tel: (718) 789-1534
Date:Tuesday, February 27
Time: 8 PM

Please come!
::fait accompli::
from Heretical Texts


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Thanks to

The Wit of The Staircase for the link to ::fait accompli:: on Walter Benjamin and Blogging (2003). Nice bit of time travel! (via wood s lot])


[Benjamin on Blogging was posted to
fait accompli Dec 12, 2003]

Thanks to

Nico Vassilakis, Tom Murphy [click here]
and wood s lot [click here]
for the kind words about ::fait acccompli:: from Heretical Texts!

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SPD *fait accompli* listing

Tom Beckett {Soluble Census) [click here] has some kind words to say about *fait accompli* from Heretical Texts.

Thanks, Tom!

Contradicta








Much of our experience of others and their experience remains foreign to us. We must internally translate or we are doomed to misunderstand or be misunderstood.




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Listening better is frequently the best answer one can give.

*fait accompli* has a new look, due to changes at blogger.

Work to be done.


Keep tuned. New Contradicta will hopefully be
posted soon.

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Thanks to
Glee Farm (Todd Colby) [click here] for the recent link.

*fait accompli* is available now from Factory School
or SPD


*fait accompli* from Heretical Texts [click here]


Heretical Texts Volumes 1-3 [click here]

Contradicta










The wisest of all are wise in love and they are fools.




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Memories are silhouettes of love or the shadows of its absence.

Contradicta








Human intelligence contains a flaw that waters the seeds of its own destruction: impatience.





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Artists and intellectuals bribe patrons and politicians with mirages of progress.

Contradicta









The truth can take a bite out of life, but it cannot taste it.




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Like the weather, the truth can harm- which is why you need shelter.

Contradicta









Anger is a desperate tiger that must be tamed- befriend or be devoured.




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The relentless critic hungers for your pride- not your excellence.

Contradicta






Take care not to acquire too many cold friends, as you must become like them. In this realm cold transfers more quickly than warmth, and more permanently.



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In people. coldness has the advantage of anaesthetizing pain. These folks take the greatest delight in their ambitions and their advantages over others, despite whatever generosity they put on display.

Contradicta








Small disappointments revive the child in us, which would be an equal recompense if we could but see it so.




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Those reluctant to disappoint forfeit the talent to surprise.

Contradicta











An ounce of insight outweighs a ton of knowledge.



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All that titters is not bold.