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- well, tidier, I hope, by the closing of some tabs...

• The Guardian reviews an exhibition of linocuts at the Dulwich Picture Gallery (here's the gallery's own publicity). It looks wonderful, but is only on through the simmer, so there's no way I'll get there...



• There's a 'cutting edge' theme going on at Dulwich (their lone, not mine): looking for that exhibition, I also found Nahoko Kojima's 'Sumi', a paper-cut crocodile - I was going to say 'a gigantic paper-cut crocodile', but perhaps that's just how big crocodiles are. What do I know, I took it for a dragon at first. More (and better) pictures on the artist's website, not to mention the eagle, the blue whale and the honeycomb.



• Someone has translated the Bible into Polari:
  "And Gloria cackled, Let there be sparkle: and there was sparkle.
  And Gloria vardad the sparkle, that it was bona: ..."



• I expect everyone but me already knew about the Yiddish Book Center? I picked up Aaron Lansky's Outwitting History in the Amnesty bookshop, curious about the title, and then intrigued by the extension title "How a Young Man Rescued a Million Books and Saved a Vanishing Civilisation". This made the enterprise sound quixotic, with all that t6hat word implies of 'quirky', 'irresistible' and 'doomed'. THat's the flavour of the narrative, too: it's very personal, lively and just a little too slick (anecdotes and conversations of twenty years ago are given in too much detail to be absolutely believable). It took a while to dawn on me that this student stunt was turning into a serious enterprise - and then, well, how could I not already have heard of this?



• Real collectors can't turn down a tempting donation: they have a collection of Yiddish typewriters.