... this is the tremendous power of the negative; it is the energy of thought, of the pure "I." Death, if that is what we want to call this non-actuality, is of all things the most dreadful, and to hold fast what is dead requires the greatest strength. Lacking strength, Beauty hates the Understanding for asking of her what it cannot do. But the life of Spirit is not the life that shrinks from death and keeps itself untouched by devastation, but rather the life that endures it and maintains itself in it. —Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit

Little cave. Seventeen tiny coffins. In Jesse Glass's research, the Dialectic is observed as at a standstill.

A wig-maker's tomb. Chapter 8 of Laird Hunt's Bestiary features selections from Baudelaire falsely translated by David Cameron.

The devil's hermitage. Translations from Louis-Jacques-Napeléon-
otherwise-known-as-Aloysius Bertrand, are translated and presented by Irène Eulriet & Rob Guthrie, in Idiosyncratica.

A hole a cave a mouth. A work for two voices by Heather Ramsdell & Garrett Kalleberg, originally performed in New York in Spring 1996, "Bodies Correlating Through Some Medium" is this month's manifestation of the Schizmata.

[Tiny figure of red devil.] Pam Rehm corrects some minor errors in recent inspirational literature in a collage Project called The Gulf Bridged.

In memory of Armand Schwerner (1927-1999)

a.He is not quite dead

. . . . . . .

b.He is someone else, perhaps an animal