<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div class="">
<div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Following the discussion closely. And, the tech-nic-al bre-ak dow- on the listserve.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">One thread I hope continues in new week — w/ new moderators and participants — the role of e-x-arts in -empyre —in a time when many are confronting Exile, Escape, … </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Here is something I shared with Alan Sondheim as a sidebar (off the list) using the sound track (by <span style="orphans: auto; widows: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto;" class="">Azure Carter, voice and song </span><span style="orphans: auto; widows: auto; text-align: -webkit-auto;" class="">Luke Damrosch, programming, recording, engineering </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; orphans: auto; widows: auto;" class="">and Sondheim on flute … [</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; orphans: auto; widows: auto;" class="">their CD will be released with Public </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; orphans: auto; widows: auto;" class="">Eyesore]. … </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; orphans: auto; widows: auto;" class=""> </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; orphans: auto; widows: auto;" class="">as the soundtrack for this excerpt):</span></div></div><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="" style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;">non-fiction allegory and escape manual :: both literally and figuratively</blockquote><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="" style="orphans: auto; widows: auto;">An excerpt from my book [play the soundtrack that Sondheim posted: <a href="http://www.alansondheim.org/protoborrow.mp3" class="" style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">http://www.alansondheim.org/protoborrow.mp3</a><span style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;" class="">]:</span></blockquote> <br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="" style="font-family: Times-Roman; orphans: auto; widows: auto;">In literary histories of modernism, the word expatriate has, until recently, referred to a group of American writers and artists living in Paris and the Côte d’ Azur in the 1920s. Ernest Hemingway immortalized this supposedly high-living crowd in his novel A Moveable Feast (1964), as did Gertrude Stein and F. Scott Fitzgerald, but counter to the mistaken view of a decadent and politically detached expatriate group, many of these same expatriates, including Rose and Bob Brown, began by fleeing, penniless, through Mexico and into Latin America in 1917 (often to avoid jail for sedition or draft dodging). In their actions, they broadened the definition of expatriates and stressed the literary and artistic vanguardists?connections to loss, exile, violence, and narrow escapes. These were not just themes in later avant-garde art; these were the lived experience of a generation, where a poverty-induced make-do resourcefulness reinforced collages of found, often discarded, objects; where exile led to a fascination with otherness and displacement; where their disgust with the xenophobia sweeping the United States and Europe, in the late teens and early 1920s, led to their flaunting diversity, difference, internationalism, and otherness; and where the necessity to avoid arrest fueled an interest in masquerade, coded allusions, and inside jokes. 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