At the A.N.D Project, a compelling collagelike interview with philosopher Richard Kearney & academic economist David Galenson about the nature of imagination and dual-creativity: “Imagination needs to be nourished by contact with what is other than itself and then, when it assimilates and digests and incorporates and incarnates with something other than itself, there’s always something other.”

Nobody said anything, and I was the first to agree.

Christian Bök’s The Xenotext; Ron Silliman on The Xenotext.

Two essays on Osama Bin Laden’s assassination that got me thinking. First is from Ken Chen at Montevidayo, and the second is from Noah Cicero.

“There are always new darknesses to rally against. But should I choose to revisit those old stories, the stories that dealt so specifically with that period of darkness, a darkness that almost took me but for the books that showed me what it was to survive, I know now how to write the ending.” — Chris Newgent with a poignant blog essay, “The Why Behind Vouched,” at Vouched Books

“I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy.” — Jessica Dovey “Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Excited this morning to notice an update to the Calamari Press website listing four new forthcoming titles after somewhat of a hiatus, including: Gary Lutz’s Divorcer, Derek White’s ARK CODEX 0, and two debuts, A Mortal Affect by Vincent Standley and Sister Stop Breathing by Chiara Barzini.

The 100th (!!!) issue of Mike Topp’s Stuyvesant Bee came out this weekend. Receiving the weird little pages in my email every week is a sustained thrill, and SB has an intensely lazy awkward traumatic aura that still somehow is funny. It hurts comedy, part by part. The always-ON Joyelle McSweeney wrote this essay about Dogtooth. She got all the right words out and together about this excellent movie. And Kenneth Goldsmith is rewriting The Arcades Project, setting it in 20th century NYC and calling it Capital, with his full overview here. Then: Goldman Sachs continues to ruin! This time: food.

“For 100,000 francs, the wildly prolific Simenon agreed to write an entire novel while suspended in a glass cage outside the Moulin Rouge nightclub for 72 hours.”

“Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.” — Edmund Burke, Anglo-Irish Statesman

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” — George Santayana, Philosopher from Spain

“Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.” — Winston Churchill, Former Prime Minister of the U.K.

“People who don’t learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.” — Ryan Atwood, Fictional Character on “The OC”