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Bartleby & Co. 06/29 david-baptiste gave 5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars to:
Bartleby & Co. (Paperback)
by Enrique Vila-Matas
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Diary: 2 06/15 david-baptiste gave 5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars to:
Diary: 2 (Gombrowicz, Witold//Diary)
by Witold Gombrowicz
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david-baptiste david-baptiste said: "Gombrowicz is one of the most extraordinary writers I've encountered in a long time. Only a truly disciplined musician can play Free Jazz, Don Cherry used to say, and such a musician is Gombrowizc in his Diaries. The sense of structure of a Bach co...more "
The Origins of Total... 05/24 david-baptiste gave 5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars to:
The Origins of Totalitarianism (Paperback)
by Hannah Arendt
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david-baptiste david-baptiste said: "I just begin this, which have wanted to read for a very long time.
Not surprisingly, one finds descriptions and analyses and brilliant insights in here, not only regarding the Nazis and Stalinists, but the situation of today in the USA, in which n...more
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July 31
The Man Who Made Ver... david-baptiste marked as to-read:
The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren (Hardcover)
by Jonathan Lopez (Goodreads author!)
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david-baptiste david-baptiste said: "I'm really looking fwd to reading this as have read a current and earlier article by jonatahn lopez which are parts of the book and they are excellent-
and open up whole new cans of worms regarding "the man who was vermeer"--
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July 18
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46183 david-baptiste wrote: "THIS IS THE CONTINUATION OF THE ONE JUST SENT DUE TO THE LIMITONCHARCTERS PER MESSAGE
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July 16
Malevich's Circle: C... david-baptiste gave 4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars to:
Malevich's Circle: Confederates - Students - Followers in Russian 1920s-1950s (Hardcover)
by Yevgenia Petrova
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Malevich: Suprematis... david-baptiste gave 5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars to:
Malevich: Suprematism and Revolution in Russian Art 1910-1930 (Hardcover)
by Larissa Alekseevna Zhadova
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Swans of other world... david-baptiste gave 4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars to:
Swans of other worlds: Kazimir Malevich and the origins of abstraction in Russia (Studies in the fine arts. The avant-garde)
by Charlotte Douglas
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Essays on art, 1915-... david-baptiste gave 5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars to:
Essays on art, 1915-1933 (Unknown Binding)
by Kazimir Severinovich Malevich
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The White Rectangle:... david-baptiste gave 5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars to:
The White Rectangle: Writings on Film (Paperback)
by Kazimir Severinovich Malevich
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MALEVICH IV: THE ART... david-baptiste gave 5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars to:
MALEVICH IV: THE ARTIST, INFINITY, SUPREMATISM: UNPUBLISHED WRITINGS 1913-33 (Paperback)
by Kasimir; Translated By Xenia Hoffman, Edited By Troels Andersen [KASIMIR MALEVICH]. Malevich
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Malevich on Supremat... david-baptiste gave 5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars to:
Malevich on Suprematism: Six Essays 1915-1926 (Paperback)
by Kazimir Severinovich Malevich
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Non Objective World david-baptiste gave 5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars to:
Non Objective World (Hardcover)
by Kasimir Malevich
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david-baptiste's favorite quotes

"“J’ai trop a ecrire, c’est pourquoi je n’ecrire rien.”"
— —Stendhal, Journal, 1804

"Yo, por bien tengo que cosas fan seneladas, y por nunca oidas ni vistas, vengan a noticia de muchos y no se entetierren en la sepultura del olvido.
--Lazarillo de Tormes
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— ANONIMO (anonymous)

"A weed is a plant out of place

(from The Killer Inside Me)"
Jim Thompson




david-baptiste's writing

El Colonel Smiles (Poetry)
1 chapters   —   updated 03/04/2008 06:28AM
description: has appeared as both a short story/prose poem (Otoliths) and as a chapbook (dusie kollectiv) i am writing more episodes of the life & works of El Colonel



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1473 MiPOesias — 113 members — last activity 39 minutes ago
A group for readers and writers of MiPOesias Magazine.
233 ¡ POETRY ! — 1039 members — last activity 12 hours, 43 min ago
No pretensions: just poetry.

Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to re...more

2564 Critical Marxist Reading Group — 10 members — last activity 07/17/2008 01:57AM
For workers, proletariats, comrades, et al interested in sharing canonical and less known works of marxist ideological bents and those imbued with mar...more




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from W.
02/14/2008 11:21AM

545392 Just saying hi...don't see you as much on here or i'd accost you and bug ya more lol...be well!

from Drew
01/21/2008 07:06PM

152258 looks like you were on a Strindberg kick - went well?

from Drew
12/17/2007 06:02PM

152258 the shit we have to climb thru is the shit we choose to take

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12/17/2007 12:36PM

Nophoto-f-50x66 yea, zero zero...
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