Monday for the Oracle at Delphi

Dept. of Monday (Tsvetaeva Edition)

“Property is      water”

(Taken from “Poem of the End,” one of the best breakup poems ever written, even in translation. It’s the one with Tsvetaeva’s famous “All poets are Jews,” and the less-quoted but maybe still better “listen/to this flesh./It is far truer than poems.” “An Attempt at Jealousy” isn’t too shabby on the breakup front, either. In case there’s anyone out there looking for great breakup poems on a cold fall Monday.) 

Dept. of Monday

“'Our chief business at present,' said Marlborough, 'is to subsist.'”

Dept. of Monday (Fall Gumption Edition)

         “and in bronze tangle square of light

The master has said to you, Style”

Dept. of Monday

“Shall we gather at the river? On second thought, let’s not.”

Dept. of Laborless Monday

Two-thirds through the Harold Pinter/Joseph Losey film collaboration, & about to lose him with The Go-Between, I’m giving over my small corner of Labor Day to the languorous Dirk Bogarde.

Dept. of Monday (Summer Wish Edition)

Ice cream socius.

Dept. of Monday (Summer Guest Edition)

Uncles from Kansas don’t like yellow glasses.

Dept. of Monday

Re-reading the Necronomicon while YouTubing the Phos Hilaron.

Dept. of Monday (Janacek Blogger Edit)

"We’re like little carp in stagnant water. This stagnant water, this is just our correspondence. But one day we’ll thrash so much in that water that it will froth up and we’ll fling ourselves over the dam wall!"

—Leos Janacek to Kamila Stosslova, 13 November 1927 (trans. John Tyrrell)

Dept. of Permanent Monday

Dept. of Monday

The outcomes are invisible.

Dept. of Monday

Days when you wish the world would compress to the size of that theater the Beatles keep trying to escape from in A Hard Day’s Night.

Dept. of Monday: The Saunter

“A man commonly saunters a little in turning his hand from one sort of employment to another.”

Adjunct Monday

“And so in that very shame I suddenly begin a hymn.”

Dept. of Monday

“aquinas map not valid now”

Dept. of Monday

The privilege is in the pity.

Dept. of Monday

“Piú cari i piú mordaci.”
The harder you bit the better it felt.

Dept. of Monday: History Edition

May the stutter be part of the record.

Dept. of Monday

Today I am a Harvard of the entire Northern lights.