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  • Emanuel Xavier: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]

    February 4, 2024

                              ______________________________________________________ Radiance for Brian   You will take care of me after radiation. I will appear to be perfectly fine and…

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  • The Purple Plums of Pierre Bonnard

    February 2, 2024

    Good enough to eat at the National Gallery

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  • Here comes GBS

    February 2, 2024

    “A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.” "“Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.” "If at age 20 you're not…

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  • “How like a winter hath my absence been. . .”

    February 2, 2024

    Sonnet 97 How like a winter hath my absence beenFrom thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!What old December's bareness everywhere!And yet this time removed was…

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  • “The Power of the Fragile”: When Jocasta says “no” quid Oedipus? [By Tracy Danison]

    February 2, 2024

    “The Power of the Fragile” by Mohamed Toukabri. Photo © Christian Tandberg The last time I saw my mother she was in a hospice bed, barely alive; I can’t remember the year. I grabbed…

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  • “Social Security” [by Terence Winch]

    February 1, 2024

    Social Security No one is safe. The streets are unsafe.Even in the safety zones, it’s not safe.Even safe sex is not safe.Even things you lock in a safeare not safe. Never deposit anythingin a…

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