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Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Rain (Pessoa and Vallejo)

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It rains and keeps raining. My soul is wet from hearing it. So much rain. . . — Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet I will die in Pa...
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Monday, November 28, 2016

Hour of lead (2)

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Citing no evidence, our president-elect — and how ashamed, how defiled one feels, personally and as a citizen, having to call him that — has...
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Monday, November 21, 2016

The One Thing We Must Keep Alive

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This rousing song by Los Lobos has been one of my favorites for more than thirty years. The video for it has a corny '80s feel to it ...
Saturday, November 19, 2016

Consequences

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Goya's great series of prints Los desastres de la guerra (The Disasters of War) is renowned for its depiction of the horrors of the Pe...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Planxty in their prime

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Universal Music Ireland has released a modestly-priced CD & DVD package devoted to my favorite Irish trad band, Planxty. Entitled Betwee...
Sunday, November 13, 2016

On Horned Beasts, and Dilemmas

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Teju Cole: Evil settles into everyday life when people are unable or unwilling to recognize it. It makes its home among us when we are kee...
Saturday, November 12, 2016

Notes for a commonplace book (19)

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Chalmers Johnson: As a goddess, Nemesis represents a warning that neither men nor women nor countries can indefinitely ignore the demands o...
Friday, November 11, 2016

City of Dreams

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I would have preferred to write about Tyler Anbinder's superb new book about "immigrant New York" under happier circumstances,...

The Tower of Steel

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Pharaoh he sits in his tower of steel The dogs of money all at his heel Magicians cry "Oh truth! Oh real!" We're all wor...
Thursday, November 10, 2016

Hour of lead

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From the New York Times: [Expletive deleted] said he would quickly cancel a program Mr. Obama put in place by executive action that gave pro...
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Wednesday, November 09, 2016

Good people (repost)

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I first posted the following two years ago, in the wake of another electoral disaster. Everything in it still stands. I'm updating it to...

Bad Faith Blues

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Well that’s that. We've succumbed to the attractions of someone who was not only a transparent con artist and buffoon but who chose ...
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Friday, November 04, 2016

Stonebirths (II)

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The woods, November 2016. (Summer stonebirths are here . )
Saturday, October 29, 2016

The Hour of the Lynx

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Francisco Goya, El sueño de la razón produce monstruos (The sleep of reason produces monsters) 1799. "Poised alertly at Goya's fee...
Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Late bloomers

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There was the faintest touch of frost on the grass this morning, and the temperature was hovering right around the freezing point when I a...
Sunday, October 09, 2016

The Mark of Ubu

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What's-his-name, in the role of the original sociopath. "His poltroonery is only surpassed by his invincible avarice" ( Macmi...
Wednesday, October 05, 2016

A Nursery of Pestilences

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Thomas Hardy: Up the sides of this depression grew sheaves of the common rush, and here and there a peculiar species of flag, the blades...
Friday, September 30, 2016

Offspring

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At first, it's a curious feeling of tautness in the palm of his left hand, no pain, just a sensation that the skin is being pulled towar...
Monday, September 19, 2016

Death and Doom

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Herman Melville: Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find m...
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Saturday, September 17, 2016

September

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These photographs were taken from one of my favorite spots on earth, a dam that holds back a local reservoir. A couple of days before...
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