May 2019 – BIG OTHER

“I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable…”

Happy 200th birthday, Walt Whitman! Here are some quotes from his writing. “This is what you shall do: Love…

Memory Is Pagan the body makes us spiritual, living in its wreckage lets us breathe as the veil falls…

Happy birthday, Agnès Varda! Here are some quotes from the filmmaker. “I was free always.” “Memory is like sand in…

Leveraged a Meadow for Cece You unfolded from forms of careful guesses placed in a time where discussion lacked…

Ark-Shaped Plus Neck She walks the shore, kempt and clipped, just-so wings, a lion’s glance across the blue savannah,…

I Don’t Wish to Be a Vampire With centuries of memory stored in a youthful body. It is – or…

“The femur is the longest and strongest bone in the human body.” Here’s a sentence from Gray‘s Anatomy that my…

Happy birthday, John Barth! 89, today! Here are some quotes from the author. “Self-knowledge is always bad news.” “[F]iction…

Happy birthday, Miles Davis! Here are some quotes from the musician. “I’ll play it and tell you what it…

Happy birthday, Ralph Waldo Emerson! Here are some quotes from his writing. “The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.”…