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Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Adrift

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He arrived knowing nothing of the city and no one there. Cities in general were mysteries to him, this one, which he had no ties to, most of...
Monday, September 23, 2019

The 23rd of September

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There aren't so many reasons to note this day (or opportunities to play this song) that one can afford to let the convergence go unobse...
Friday, September 13, 2019

Peter Case: A Kickstarter Campaign

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Musician and songwriter Peter Case has an ambitious two-record project in the works, and is looking for financial support to put him over ...
Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Family reunion

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Four years ago I posted the above image, dated 1887, of a young French woman named Alexandra Marie Fulton de Lipowski. Thanks to a message ...
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Monday, August 26, 2019

Ode

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The larger the scale, the more predictable the world is. The planets and stars move on determined courses, the earth revolves, day becomes ...
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Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Gulley Jimson & Co.

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Because summer means going to the beach, and going to the beach means gulls.
Wednesday, August 07, 2019

Collection internationale

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Until relatively recently, the availability of foreign-language reading material in the US was a bit hit-or-miss, unless you happened to liv...
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Saturday, August 03, 2019

A Certain Necessary Something (Charles Simmons)

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The writer Charles Simmons, who died two years ago, wrote a half-dozen novels, of which I've read only two. As far as I know he never p...
Thursday, August 01, 2019

The Folks Back Home

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It's very difficult, at least for me, to make out the long inscription on this Real Photo postcard, but the language is apparently Germ...
Monday, July 29, 2019

Notes for a Commonplace Book (26)

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Sally Mann: At its most accomplished, photographic portraiture approaches the eloquence of oil painting in portraying human character, but w...
Saturday, July 27, 2019

Upon the Retina

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A Mr. Warner, photographer, on reading an account of Emma Jackson in St. Giles's, addressed a letter to Detective Officer James F. Thomp...
Monday, July 22, 2019

Notes Against a Manifesto

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What is to be done? Is there anything more exasperating than the cycle of analysis regarding our political situation? How did we get here? ...
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Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Ouch (2)

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Jeopardy clue: "Inscribed on Woody Guthrie's guitar: 'This machine kills' these." Contestant's response: "Wh...
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Sunday, July 07, 2019

In Kakania

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Robert Musil: The administration of this country was carried out in an enlightened, hardly perceptible manner, with a cautious clipping of ...
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Saturday, July 06, 2019

Lucas, His Long Marches

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Julio Cortázar: Everybody knows that the Earth is separated from other heavenly bodies by a variable number of light-years. What few know (i...
Thursday, July 04, 2019

The Age of Ubu

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"A painting by Jean-Martin Bontoux of King Ubu in Alfred Jarry’s play Ubu Roi, late twentieth century," via The New York Review...
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Sunday, June 30, 2019

Lèse-majesté?

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" Cartoonist loses job after image depicting Trump ignoring dead migrants to play golf " (The Independent) . Image by Michael d...
Monday, June 24, 2019

Notes from a Commonplace Book (25)

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Quoted entirely out of context: Being in a strange land and among strange men and things, meeting with customs and surrounded by circumsta...
Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Curiosity Cabinet

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This entertaining popular account of the Victorian mania for natural history was published by Jonathan Cape and Doubleday in 1980, and has a...
Sunday, June 16, 2019

Stephen O. Saxe (1930-2019)

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The printing historian Stephen O. Saxe died on April 27th of this year, according to a memorial notice in the New York Times today (June 1...
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