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From James Murray's The Evolution of English Lexicography, published in 1900: "The English Dictionary, like the English Constitution, is the creation of no one man, and of no one age; it is a growth that has slowly developed itself down the ages; its beginnings lie far back in times almost pre-historic. And these beginnings themselves, although the English Dictionary today is lineally developed from them, were neither Dictionaries, nor even English." (From the epigraph to Simon Winchester's The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary.)

Jeff Weiss on The Doors' L.A. Woman: "From recording to writing, the approach is rough but relaxed. No set hours. No working at night. No more than three takes, recorded live on 8-track with minimal overdubs. Desks are shoved to the side. Quilts hang from the walls for higher fidelity. Working from the second floor, out of sight, Botnick hooks up a console speaker and tape recorder. For session work, he recruits Elvis Presley's bassist, Jerry Scheff, and rhythm guitarist Marc Benno, who frees Krieger up for kaleidoscopic solos. A disciple of the King, Morrison is thrilled."

Guy Patrick Cunningham on reading in pieces: "Fragmentary writing is (or at least feels) like the one avant-garde literary approach that best fits our particular moment. It’s not that it’s the only form of writing that matters of course, just that it captures the tension between 'digital' and 'analog' reading better than anything else out there. And that tension, in many ways, is the defining feature of the contemporary reading experience."

Adam Gopnik on the The Caging of America: "What prisoners try to convey to the free is how the presence of time as something being done to you, instead of something you do things with, alters the mind at every moment. For American prisoners, huge numbers of whom are serving sentences much longer than those given for similar crimes anywhere else in the civilized world — Texas alone has sentenced more than four hundred teen-agers to life imprisonment — time becomes in every sense this thing you serve."

Video from TripleCanopy: Zoe Beloff's film and installation The Infernal Dream of Mutt and Jeff is on view at M HKA Museum (Antwerp, Belgium) from February 16 until June 3, 2012.

Mutt and Jeff on Strike from triple canopy on Vimeo.