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Aphorism of the Day: Anthony Trollope
"There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance; a feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood.” – Anthony Trollope, Orley Farm
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WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: May 24, 2023
For today’s post I offer this exquisite poem “Bicycles” by Paul Hostovsky, first published in Body. If you haven’t checked out this superb literary magazine, please do! BICYCLES Now I would rather remember life…
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“Sperm Heaven” [by Henri Michaux, trans. David Lehman]
Sperm Heaven — a translation of Henri Michaux's “Le Ciel du Spermatozoide” A man’s sperm bears a curious resemblance to the man himself – to his character, I should say. A woman’s egg…
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Czeching 1, 2, 3, 4 … [by Lewis Saul]
Four Czech New Wave films Invention for Destruction (1958) Karel Zeman (1910-1989). A master of stop-motion animation, he based the film on the Jules Verne patriotic novel Facing the Flag. Using miniature effects and matte…
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J. Tarwood: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_______________________________________________________________________________ A Pause in Our Divorce Tomorrow, we start again, those leaflets on the blood of the lamb swirling about my blockade of shot glasses.…
