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The Aventine
Troubles have a way of cropping up at bedtime, and the mind—sometimes—roils instead of settling. The music of Agnes Obel has helped draw the shroud of sleep over these past few months, and provided pacifying strains for a more restorative contemplation. We had the privilege of seeing her this evening. She was, quite simply, a […]
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Fragmentary, No. 3
The objects of sense are supposed to be real—but in truth they are not. Only the atoms and the void are real. ♦ Democritus
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Fragmentary, No. 2
“One of the mysteries in the history of chemistry is how seldom chemists blew themselves up while investigating novel substances and reactions. Hydrogen and oxygen . . . can burn smoothly together, but they can also react explosively. Priestley used to carry small bottles of these two airs, and he entertained visitors by exploding the […]
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Fragmentary, No. 1
The phenomenologist from Paris hates mosquitoes and carries a small electronic device that lures the female mosquito to her death by simulating the amorous cry of the male. Then, to block the whining sound, he has pink earplugs. As he sits in conversation with the phenomenologist from Sussex a mosquito is observed to enter. The […]
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Negative Forms
A neologism born out of agitation, a discomfort in the abstract body, and a drive to direct turbulent formulations of ephemera out: outward; outside, into the open. Its root, my well-worn friend pensive, traces a spectrum of inversion, beginning with “sorrowfully thoughtful; gloomy, sad, melancholy” (OED); a condition familiar, but unwelcome save for the rainiest […]
IMPENSIVE
". . . and remember Lady Macbeth, who had her mind in her hand. We can't all be as safe as that."
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