- The Labor Day holiday weekend in the USA is a little more than a week away. I’m hoping to spend the time reading--something awful, something so colossally horrifying that I will be upset for weeks. In other words, something by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. (Cancer Ward, The Gulag Archipelago, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, por ejemplo.) So I bought August 1914, and can hardly wait to get started.
- Recently became aware of two young writers: Yrsa Daley-Ward and Lucy Corin.
- The young man doesn’t use Twitter because “it’s only words.” He demands pictures, images. I argue, not in favor of Twitter, but in favor of words, the concept that words, arranged correctly, can create images, too. If a picture’s worth a thousand words, then a thousand words will also be a picture, if you’re doing it right.
- I’ve basura-buried three broke neck finches in the past week. A beloved pet is missing. Existence can often be harsh. But we follow the living on Facebook.
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Hautboys and Torches
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