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The Antigonish Review

Antigonish Review # 149

Contents Of This Issue

Introduction
Primary Works
As Humourist
As Teacher
As Mentor
As Editor

Contributors
Artwork

Contact

Cover
Family Photo by Brendan Sanderson

Contents

Introduction

Eclectic Dreams Revisited

Tony Tremblay

9

The Gift of George: The End of the Dance

Gertrude Sanderson

13

My Brother George

Steve Sanderson

14

Remembering My Father

Eric Sanderson

19

TAR Days

George Sanderson

21

Primary Works by George Sanderson

Sample Essays and Reviews

Towards Cyborgia: Aristotle, Bergson and McLuhan on the Nature of the Soul	29
Discussion: Commentary on Marshall McLuhan and the Psychology of Television	33
Review of Counterblast by Marshall McLuhan	41
Review of The Medium Is the Rear View Mirror by Donald F. Theall	46
Review of McLuhan by Jonathan Miller	48
Review of I Seem To Be A Verb by R. Buckminster Fuller with Jerome Agel and Quentin Fiore	50
Review of The Storming of the Mind by Robert Hunter	52
Review of The Glace Bay Miner's Museum by Sheldon Currie	53
Review of The Vatican Oracle by Brocard Sewell	54

Sample Stories, Creative Sundries, and Asides

X-Otics	61
Don Canossi and Other Micro-Stories	66
Micro-Stories Continued	67
Don Canossi Revisited	69
Inklings [poems and ink drawings by G.S.]	70
Town Council [Letter to the Editor]	74
The Strictures of Structure	76
A Gift in Time	79
A Question of Rites	80
A Tern for the Worse	83
Orders From Outer Space?	85

George Sanderson As Humourist

Hobo Sapiens	91
Ice Swine	91
The Mudonna of Turtle Bay	92
Poultrygeist	92
Nana Technology	93
Sumo Whistlers	93
Triptych	94
Cloistered Oysters	95
Pablum Picasso	95
Mosquito by Gehry	96
Thesaurus Rex	96
Elmer Began to Wonder if He Needed Rhinoplasty	97
Recumbent DNA	97
Clown Prosecutor	98
Dali Llama	98
Mental Floss	99

As Teacher

from Workbook for Philosophy 330	George Sanderson	103
from Final Exam for Philosophy 330	George Sanderson	104
The Debt We Owe Our Teachers and Mentors	Michael W. Higgins	105
Bionic Parts	Steve Cameron	107
George Sanderson as Teacher	Tony Tremblay	109

As Mentor

For Gert	Patrick Walsh	115
George Sanderson: Reading the World	Anne Simpson	121
Remembering George	Reynold Stone	125
Motorcycle Elegy	Stewart Donovan	127
Remembering George Sanderson	Leo Furey	129
George Sanderson: Congenial Citadel	Sonja A. Skarstedt	131
The Humourist Who Never Told a Joke	Sheldon Currie	137

As Editor

The Unknown MacSween	George Sanderson	141
Tribute to b�la egyedi	George Sanderson	144
Reading Air: For George Sanderson	Peter Sanger	145
George, Oasis of the Mind and Heart	Jeanette Lynes	148
A Heracleitian Triad	Allan Brown	151
Magnanimity	Eric McLuhan	152
Letter to Michael Higgins	George Sanderson	154
Letter to Tony and Ellen Tremblay	George Sanderson	156
George on My Mind	Joe Keogh	157
With a bottle of scotch to tune the mind...	George Thompson	164

Cover Image (printed version)

Cover Image: Family photo; Brendan Sanderson pp. 24, 49, 75, 91-99, 128.

Lemons/Bowls, 2003-2004, 4 paintings, 19 x 23.5 inches each, oil on linen.

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Permission to re-print work by George Sanderson has been given by his executor, Gertrude Sanderson. All reasonable effort has been made to trace all publication dates and copyright holders in order to request permissions. If any oversight has occurred, the editors of The Antigonish Review will be glad to acknowledge accordingly in a future issue.

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