I ambled through the woods adjoining the Cypress Creekway, woods full of tame does and pileated woodpeckers, woods crossed with impacted trails and pocked with the aluminum remains of impromptu campfires, and saw, near the creekbed, a red brazen jeep, its driver behatted (pileated peckerwood?) and unwary. No one went with Fergus then, as I [...]
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Clancy and I just played a google guessing game: I asked how many hits, within an order of magnitude, do you think ”barack obama antichrist” will return? Clancy answered three digits, I said five. As of a few minutes ago, the answer was 36,700, leaving me with the exultation of victory. This post by Apostropher, [...]
A well-regarded panel from the Codex Seraphinianus.
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J. C. Powys appreciated Hart Crane’s “For The Marriage of Faustus and Helen” (Hart Crane, LOA 338), and Crane was also consoled by the vigorous style of Lewis’s Time and Western Man, a “lot better than the usual Doug Fairbanks of controversies” (575). I could see “There is a world dimensional/For those untwisted by the [...]
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The one that I would most like to write a novel about, set mostly during his dashing early years, is Cpt. Lydgate: “He had, moreover, that sort of high-breeding which consists in being free from the petty solicitudes of middle-class gentility, and he was a great critic of feminine charms” (Ch. LVIII). Norman Mailer remarked [...]
