Modern Americans

“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...

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

         “and in bronze tangle square of light The master has said to you, Style”

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

Two-thirds through the Harold Pinter/Joseph Losey film collaboration, & about to lose him with The Go-Between , I’m giving over my smal...

Ice cream socius.

Uncles from Kansas don ’ t like yellow glasses.

Re-reading the Necronomicon while YouTubing the Phos Hilaron .

"We ’ re like little carp in stagnant water. This stagnant water, this is just our correspondence. But one day we ’ ll thrash so much i...

The outcomes are invisible.

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 .

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

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

“aquinas map not valid now”

The privilege is in the pity.

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

May the stutter be part of the record.

Today I am a Harvard of the entire Northern lights.