July 2019 – Page 3

“I think America, really, is over.”

Happy birthday, James Purdy! Here are some quotes from the writer. “Some people confess in the flesh, others on…

Gravitas, an oval shape. We partially shot our windows, our idiot boxes so we don’t see your faces. The…

Catullus Sails to China (1) Now that my sojourn is circling a drain Should I slow this engine down…

Happy birthday, Jacques Derrida! Here are some quotes from the philosopher . “We must do the impossible, we must…

Happy birthday, Walter Benjamin! Here are some quotes from the philosopher, cultural critic, and essayist. “Writers are really people…

Crônica No. 1: On the Form The work of art, like the world, is a living form: it is,…

Happy birthday, Ingmar Bergman! Here are some quotes from the film director. “I don’t want to produce a work…

Happy birthday, Marcel Proust! “Love is space and time measured by the heart.” “Happiness is beneficial for the body…

I don’t ask experts I take a different route along a stream back up to the main road and…

“On towards four in the morning it starts to rain.” This wistful sigh of a first sentence opens Efraim’s Book,…