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The Substance
Physical beauty must be the most bitter of gifts because it carries the seed of its own destruction, and its absence mortifies more than any. We all …
1 year, 8 months ago
A Notorious Dark Horse
In my very long mailing list—which this platform insists on distributing a newsletter instead of leaving the reader alone at his own free will—I also…
1 year, 8 months ago
Gold Plated
The rumbling swell woke me up in front of a breakwater wall that blocked my view of the sea, but the water sprays climbed above it, like a ranging wh…
1 year, 9 months ago
Steamed Fish
Since I quit drinking alcohol and smoking pot or tobacco to avoid running out of steam and finish sentences skidding at the top of the gravel voice, …
1 year, 9 months ago
1999
I don’t believe this record can be broken, but who knows? All it takes is a madman to allow American missiles to be launched at Russia from Ukraine, …
1 year, 9 months ago
The Dog Star
September is my favorite month for several reasons. Once the haze dissipates, the crowds that come with summer in a beach town also disappear, especi…
1 year, 10 months ago
Wise Blood
With indescribable relief, I note that the summer storms have finally arrived and two-thousand-year-old festival known as Ferragosto is behind us. Th…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Long Way Back
Marcel Proust had an epic quarrel in 1895 France with the literary critic Charles Sainte-Beuve on what the reader should know about any author and al…
1 year, 11 months ago
Truman's Swans
Yesterday, after waiting six months for the release, I could finally gorge like Pantagruel in a bookish streaming series about the one and only Truma…
1 year, 11 months ago
All Memory is Fiction, and All Fiction is a Memory.
Today, the Olympic Games in Paris will finally open after the mayoress has tried to convince us that the Seine River is cleaner than ever by taking a…
1 year, 11 months ago