HTTP/2 301 server: nginx date: Sun, 25 Jan 2026 01:21:52 GMT content-type: application/rss+xml; charset=UTF-8 location: https://xties.wordpress.com/comments/feed/ x-hacker: Want root? Visit join.a8c.com/hacker and mention this header. host-header: WordPress.com link: ; rel="https://api.w.org/" vary: accept, content-type, cookie last-modified: Sun, 25 Jan 2026 01:21:52 GMT etag: "8878fe05d6322fdf39843e6062868294" x-redirect-by: WordPress x-ac: 3.bom _dca MISS alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400 strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000 server-timing: a8c-cdn, dc;desc=bom, cache;desc=MISS;dur=364.0 HTTP/2 200 server: nginx date: Sun, 25 Jan 2026 01:21:53 GMT content-type: application/rss+xml; charset=UTF-8 vary: Accept-Encoding x-hacker: Want root? Visit join.a8c.com/hacker and mention this header. host-header: WordPress.com link: ; rel="https://api.w.org/" vary: accept, content-type, cookie last-modified: Sun, 25 Jan 2026 01:21:53 GMT etag: W/"a6515f47a618c21f77d4adcd6611c800" content-encoding: gzip x-ac: 3.bom _dca MISS alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400 strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000 server-timing: a8c-cdn, dc;desc=bom, cache;desc=MISS;dur=377.0 https://xties.wordpress.com Sun, 15 May 2016 05:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.com/ https://xties.wordpress.com/2016/04/30/the-struggle-against-silence/#comment-1055 Sun, 15 May 2016 05:29:09 +0000 https://xties.wordpress.com/?p=8399#comment-1055 […] An earlier post on this blog argues that writing is, among other things, a response to the realisation that “we are not really at home / in the interpreted world” (words from the first of Rilke’s Duino Elegies – see Note 3). The title of that post was borrowed from the Mexican author, Carlos Fuentes, who declared: “Writing is a struggle against silence.” As I said in that piece, the struggle to utter the unutterable is one thing; the struggle against the things that silence us is something else entirely. In our efforts to make sense of the world, writers often find it necessary to grapple with both. […]

]]> https://xties.wordpress.com/2016/05/03/jean-valentine-from-copper-canyon-press/#comment-1054 Tue, 03 May 2016 20:26:01 +0000 https://xties.wordpress.com/2016/05/03/jean-valentine-from-copper-canyon-press/#comment-1054 So you like this one too! Good for us. Thanks for sharing. – Donna

]]> https://xties.wordpress.com/2016/04/18/dry-humping-parnassus-featured-at-discover/#comment-1053 Mon, 18 Apr 2016 07:15:41 +0000 https://xties.wordpress.com/2016/04/18/dry-humping-parnassus-featured-at-discover/#comment-1053 Thanks for the reblog.

]]> https://xties.wordpress.com/2015/06/05/gingko-gold/#comment-1044 Tue, 09 Jun 2015 04:07:14 +0000 https://xties.wordpress.com/?p=8322#comment-1044 […] recent post on the |cross-ties| blog pictures the canopy of gingko gold across Lambton Quay, near Wasabi Sushi in the James Cook Arcade, […]

]]> https://xties.wordpress.com/2015/04/06/intertextuality/#comment-1042 Tue, 19 May 2015 04:22:16 +0000 https://xties.wordpress.com/?p=8282#comment-1042 In reply to Touch2Touch.

Thanks, Judith.

]]> https://xties.wordpress.com/2015/04/06/intertextuality/#comment-1041 Mon, 18 May 2015 20:11:09 +0000 https://xties.wordpress.com/?p=8282#comment-1041 So many words!
The photo says it all, to me.
But what a sophisticated glance you have —

]]> https://xties.wordpress.com/2015/02/10/the-basis-of-optimism/#comment-1040 Tue, 12 May 2015 06:20:37 +0000 https://xties.wordpress.com/?p=7741#comment-1040 Reblogged this on Nothing Sacred.

]]> https://xties.wordpress.com/2015/04/06/intertextuality/#comment-1038 Wed, 06 May 2015 22:08:11 +0000 https://xties.wordpress.com/?p=8282#comment-1038 Reblogged this on Nothing Sacred and commented:
“Barthes’s theory of text involves the theory of intertextuality because the text offers a plurality of meanings and is also woven out of numerous already existing texts. The text is not a unified, isolated object that gives a singular meaning, but an element open to various interpretations.” (Voicu Mihnea Simandan, in a blog piece titled Barthes’s elements of intertextuality.)

]]> https://xties.wordpress.com/2015/04/23/conversation-with-a-painter/#comment-1036 Fri, 24 Apr 2015 05:10:25 +0000 https://xties.wordpress.com/?p=8305#comment-1036 In reply to tms.

Thanks, Tobias. I’m still often reluctant to ‘intrude’ into a prospective subject’s space … but I suspect that masters of the camera learned not to let that fear come between them and a great shot.

]]> https://xties.wordpress.com/2015/04/23/conversation-with-a-painter/#comment-1034 Thu, 23 Apr 2015 08:51:35 +0000 https://xties.wordpress.com/?p=8305#comment-1034 It’s reassuring to learn I’m not the only one under scrutiny when photographing… Thanks for sharing this little anecdote. Ah, yes, and I love the picture, but that’s no big surprise, I guess.

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