F Buechner on the faces we will meet or do not …
T.S. Eliot read by Sir Anthony Hopkins …
Helen of Troy, beauty + danger …
3D-printed face shields …
Melania Trump …
Gangsta …
FDA …
… ah, but we find this hard
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No It Won’t
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Take Up Do
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The other day I wrote about having no hope. More specifically no hope in this world, more specifically because the hopes we had have been
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The word is buffet, and it is 300 years old, from the Old French, of “obscure origin” as the kids say, if the kids wrote etymological
What Are The Stories
“What are the stars?” No, not “big balls of gas” — that’s just their form. Just as people aren’t blood and guts so are stars
In The Heart of the Drunkard
And away he went, to drink the value of his cross … I have been listening to Fyodor Dostoevski’s The Idiot on the iPhone, from
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