M. Allen Cunningham

This is the third installment in the Scherzo Series, which brings you short readings from the A-to-Z "Scherzo: A Glossary of Spectacle & Bewilderment (with Anecdotes) Compiled on Behalf of the Imaginative Mind," found in Cunningham's new book We Are Guests of Ancient Time.

The terms defined in this installment are:

• BINGE
• CANCELLATION (so-called)
• CLINTON SCANDAL

Music by Blue Dot Sessions, courtesy of the Free Music Archive.

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This is the second installment in the Scherzo Series, which brings you short readings from the A-to-Z "Scherzo: A Glossary of Spectacle & Bewilderment (with Anecdotes) Compiled on Behalf of the Imaginative Mind," found in Cunningham's new book We Are Guests of Ancient Time.

The terms defined in this installment are:

• ALGORITHM
• ARTIST AS KOOK
• AUGMENTED REALITY

Music by Blue Dot Sessions, courtesy of the Free Music Archive.

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This is the first installment in the Scherzo Series, which brings you short readings from the A-to-Z "Scherzo: A Glossary of Spectacle & Bewilderment (with Anecdotes) Compiled on Behalf of the Imaginative Mind," found in Cunningham's new book We Are Guests of Ancient Time.

The terms defined in this installment are:

• ADAPTATION (Book to Film, or Book to Limited Series)
• A.I.

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The first prelude from Cunningham's book We Are Guests of Ancient Time: Essays & Variations on the Imagination, Memory, Seeing, and Media).

(Music by JWC)

Learn more about this book: https://www.atelier26books.com/we-are-guests-of-ancient-time.html

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An audio excerpt from M. Allen Cunningham's talk "Reading, Seeing, and Self-Forgetting," delivered recently in an undergraduate creative writing course. Cunningham considers what a creative writing course can and cannot achieve, and explores the imaginative value of honing one's perceptions by "going beyond the edges" of one's own identity, perspectives, imagination, and discipline. One springboard for this lecture is Ali Smith's Artful, an assigned book for this course Other touchpoints include Rainer Maria Rilke, Paul Cezanne, Harold Bloom, C.S. Lewis, Nabokov, Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, Michael Oakeshott, and Lynda Barry. (NB: Cunningham's particular discussion of Rilke originates with Letters on Cezanne, edited by Joel Agee, and draws on the observations in Agee's introduction to that book.)

Visit www.MAllenCunningham.com to learn more about Cunningham's work as a writer, teacher, and publisher.

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A reading from John Ruskin's The Stones of Venice, Vol. III, Chapter 11 (1853)

MUSIC:

"A Simple Blur" by Blue Dot Sessions, courtesy of Free Music Archive

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"This music is not only infinitely durable, but perhaps the closest that music has ever come to universality."

Voice: Leonard Bernstein, Bernstein on Beethoven: A Celebration in Vienna (1970)

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"I did not know what 'Information Retrieval' was and I did not wish to find out."

Voice: Harold Bloom, Interview (2000)

Music: "Glacier" by SalmonLikeTheFish, courtesy of Free Music Archive

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