April 2009
17 posts
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“In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to...”
– Tom Wolfe, Submitted by: Liz
“Darling, darling, tonight I have such a wild lust for your body that if you were...”
– James Joyce to his wife Nora
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Below Freezing
We are at a party that doesn’t love us. Finally the party lets the mask fall and shows what it is: a shunting station for freight cars. In the fog cold giants stand on their tracks. A scribble of chalk on the car doors.
One can’t say it aloud, but there is a lot of repressed violence here. That is why the furnishings seem so heavy. And why it is so difficult to see the other thing present: a spot...
“Darling, I love your spleen; I love your liver; I adore your pancreas, and the...”
– Orlan
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Scheherazade
Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake and dress them in warm clothes again. How it was late, and no one could sleep, the horses running until they forget that they are horses. It’s not like a tree where the roots have to end somewhere, it’s more like a song on a policeman’s radio, how we rolled up the carpet so we could dance, and the days were...
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Lines for the Fortune Cookies
I think you’re wonderful and so does everyone else. Just as Jackie Kennedy has a baby boy, so will you—even bigger. You will meet a tall beautiful blonde stranger, and you will not say hello. You will take a long trip and you will be very happy, though alone. You will marry the first person who tells you your eyes are like scrambled eggs. In the beginning there was YOU—there will...
“If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to...”
– Christopher Morely, Submitted by: Vanessa Ong
