hither and yon
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this is the plot
how are you feeling?
:The sun was no more than a degree or so above the horizon, where it stays when it is the end of the world. From the still-heated...
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"Through the half-opened door I looked into our large and gloomy drawing room. There was no one in it. The mirror, alone and cold, swinging free on its stand, shone with a strange light. I rarely looked at myself in it. I was afraid of being caught--in the act of...
it’s not a memory
Pop Quiz
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street anthem
dear art spiegelman
"Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness." --Samuel Beckett, as quoted in Maus II: A Survivor's Tale, by Art Spiegelman Dear Art Spiegelman, I just woke up from a nightmare, which was really just a silly dream about a fight I’m...
Crying !con
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We have to jump.
"Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind." --G. K. Chesterton --Remember when you told me you loved...
People Person
"Mom used to scream that she couldn't wait until I had children so I would know what hell was like. My grandma would put her arm around me and laugh." --Lynda Barry, from One Hundred Demons [tooltip title="" content="Seattle, WA: Sasquatch Books, 2002."...
the spoon-fed ant heap
"Ultimately, the criminal and the madman are pure objects and solitary subjects; their frantic subjectivity is carried to the point of solipsism at the moment when they are reduced for others to the state of a pure, manipulated thing, or a pure being-there...
That Hamilton Woman
[flowplayer src='https://www.bootrundle.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/thathamiltonwoman.m4v' splash='http://www.bootrundle.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/thereisnoafter.jpg'] "It is yearning that makes the heart deep." Augustine Starting in first grade,...
First Bank Ever
"I helped make Mexico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenue in. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers. . . . I...
teachable moment
"time that has elapsed ⇒ elapsed time a leaf that has fallen ⇒ a fallen leaf a man who has traveled widely ⇒ a widely traveled man a testicle that has not descended into the scrotum ⇒ an undescended testicle a Christ that has risen from the dead ⇒ a risen...
barking backward
"The old dog barks backward without getting up. I can remember when he was a pup." --Robert Frost, "The Span of Life" My boyfriend’s older brother was twenty-one. We were seventeen at the time, so twenty-one was a glamorous wedding with destiny. But “Russ” just...
you can’t see a black hole
If you’d never been born, well then what would you be? You might be a fish! Or a toad in a tree! You might be a doorknob! Or three baked potatoes! You might be a bag full of hard green tomatoes. Or worse than all that . . .Why, you might be a WASN’T. A Wasn’t...