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Notes

• 1) Romana Huk tries to save Stevie Smith from the damages done by a reputation for eccentricity by translating her into the category of the “ex-centric,” understood here as a “liminal position in society and langue” which produces only “fractured sightings of the self in the shadow of ascendant cultural forces” (1). Obviously, having “unfractured sightings of the self” would be preferable in this reading (and appears possible for other subjects) and ex-centricity is a positional deficit which Smith’s art tries to work its way around.. By contrast, we would insist that the eccentric remain eccentric and should be valued as such, as a choice and a profoundly different model of how one may position oneself in relation to a whole range of issues, including those of seeing oneself in culture or not.