Ballast Quarterly Review is a periodical commonplace book, issued quarterly since 1985. Its title is an acronym for Books Art Language Logic Ambiguity Science and Teaching, as well as a distant allusion to BLAST, the short-lived publication founded during World War I by British author P. Wyndham Lewis, a Vorticist artist and writer.

BALLAST is mainly a pastiche of astonishing passages from books, magazines, diaries and other published writings. Put differently, it is a journal devoted to wit, the contents of which are intended to be insightful, amusing or thought provoking. 

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