The Transcendental Friend no. 10, 5/99

Issue No. 10, May 1999

Note

For he that should be modest, and tractable, and performe all he promises, in such time, and place, where no man els should do so, should but make himselfe a prey to others, and procure his own certain ruine, contrary to the ground of all Lawes of Nature, which tend to Natures preservation. And again, he that having sufficient Security, that others shall observe the same Lawes towards him, observes them not himselfe, seeketh not Peace, but War; & consequently the destruction of his Nature by Violence.
—Thomas Hobbes, Leviathon XV

On the right, a U.S. soldier dressed in marines fatigues. For this issue I'm very happy to present the work of painter Emilie Clark, in collaboration with Lytle Shaw & Heather Ramsdell, for an expanded Mote section. The work, consisting in 3 separate texts and 13 images, is called "Wildness." The nature of force, the force of "the natural."

On Tuesdays I like to eat my father. A new section for writings on the body, called Physiology, is inaugurated with Susan Bernofsky's translation of work by Yoko Tawada, called "Raisin Eyes." An unnatural act.

One of the most remarkable cases of instinctive knowledge. This month's Bestiary includes a couple of charming snake tales from the 19th Century, presented by Jesse Glass. The true and inescapably evil nature of the serpent.

For many, the review. Dan Machlin has taken on the project of the Review section, and introduces work to come. The nature of the review as form.

On the second day the leaves. Leonard Schwartz presents new work by Zhang Er for Report from Afield, translated from the Chinese by the author & Susan Schultz. Empathetic nature.

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Garrett Kalleberg