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The Script of the Stones: A Short Walk at the End of the World

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By Francis Gooding
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Unlimited Editions: Honiunhoni

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By Francis Gooding
| The Wire Verified
Founded by ethnomusicologist, educator and musician Daniyal Ahmed, Karachi based label Honiunhoni (‘Possible Impossibilities’) initially came to prominence through its championing of the octogenarian Balochi benju master, Ustad Noor Bakhsh, who was profiled in The Wire 466.
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Rocket Science for Monkeys

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By Francis Gooding
| London Review of Books Verified
The​ word is not the thing. In spoken language a word is a distinctive sound or series of sounds. It does not have a ‘natural’ relationship to the thing it stands for. Ferdinand de Saussure theorised that a sign is made up of two parts: the signifier (the physical form taken by the sign, for instance a spoken word or its written representation) and the signified (the concept the signifier picks out).
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