Pont Vs Envy single work   essay  
Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 Pont Vs Envy
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'Don't let that quote up there scare you. My interest in this essay is 'my interest in', my curiosity about, envy. Operating more as Nietzschean difference than as a negating, the 'vs', in other words, is active rather than adversarial. The take-home - to save your reading on - pertains to dosage. While grim to experience, envy insists; it isn't going anywhere. Even as visual trace, as word, it cuts a compelling figure. Four letters, in their uppercase guise: sloping, canyonesque, stalactite-mite-like. The 'E' faces its companions - who wait, lined up - and it contemplates its relation to them. They occupy space nearby, are proximate, parallel, but do not coincide with the 'E'. Envy, as philosopher Agnes Heller reminds us in 'A Theory of Feelings', tends to occur most virulently between 'similars', not across starker hierarchies.' (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon The Lifted Brow no. 42 June 2019 16842619 2019 periodical issue 'A  poet friend told me recently that they wished their poem was a brick. A festival director friend said that it's just writers having a chat. And a friend with a grant to write a novel has just taken up carpentry.' (Editorial introduction) 2019 pg. 25-30
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