Hexagon

How do you say "Easter bunny" in Latin?

Can we cross them all once? And only once?

"I mount! I fly!" – Mr. Pope, 1712.

"Everything you can imagine is real" – Pablo Picasso

sitting in a chair minding my business in front of a weird dish (recipe below)

"Don't fall in love with power." – MF, 1977

It is not a time for the creative to fail, to shrink, or to stop working. – Pablo Picasso, 1944

"I don't have a lot of memory in my head" - Ryuji Tonaki

“All conviction is an illness,” Francis Picabia, Ecrits, 1913-1920

Even before/I decide which to take,/which to twist from the wet rocks,/which to devour,/they, who have no eyes to see with,/see me, like a shadow,/bending forward.” – Mary Oliver, "Mussels", 1979

"Quand on veut que tout change, on appelle le feu." – Gaston Bachelard, La psychanalyse du feu, 1938

"If stupidity were not confusingly similar to progress, ability, hope and improvement, no one would want to be stupid." – Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities, 1931

"Indicate precisely what you mean to say/Yours sincerely, wasting away." – Lennon-McCartney, "When I'm Sixty-Four", 1967

"We would all believe in God if we knew He existed, but would this be much fun?" – J. Ashbery, “The Invisible Avant-Garde,” 1972

"I feel like the Israelites in the desert coming across manna, and thinking: what the fuck is this?" – Philip Larkin

"What, what is that you tried to say?" – Thom Yorke, 2000

"I am a frequency, current flies through." – Jorie Graham, "Ebbtide", 2001

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“Thought” of the day: I am bemused by “bemused.” I don’t think it should mean what it means.

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Lines composed after a week alone in the countryside with a universal remote.

C'était du tonnerre. Dans l'histoire des mauvaises idées celle-là est remarquable. Ça a fait un tabac. C'a été un journée d'enfer.

“Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?”—Stephanie Nicks

"Don't shout, idiot." — Francisco Goya

* "flower" in Huuy-ay-aht

Are Popes infallible? Do Presidents shit in their hats?

On Covid in Canada Just Before the Polls Close in France

Reading and writing are dead. The Fifth Republic just took a dump. I like fish. Typhus is terrifying.

“Ce peuple, apparemment tranquille, est encore dangereux.”—Raymond Aron

The sane should flee/ from whence madmen command/ because when blind men lead/ woe to those who follow behind! —Gómez Manrique, 1480

Fruit flies like the yeast and fungi that cause the fermentation of organic matter.

The order of things is not motionless—Juan Meléndez Valdés, 1773

Perceptions received by the ears or by reflection can be most easily retained if they are also conveyed to our minds by the mediation of the eyes.— Cicero, De oratore, 55 BC

I am back in Paris after New York and before that, Amsterdam, and before that, the Sarthe and the Cévennes, none of which I’ve written about yet. What follows below, after the Four Horses of Goya, is set in Spain, which, bizarrely, I haven’t set foot in since 2014 – and that was only overnight.

In loving memory of Julie Wyn Summerfield (October 1, 1954 - May 7, 2024)

A cultural war that's about to hijack your birthright to think and say what lives in your heart. – National Rifle Association President Charlton Heston, 1999

Do you have eyes of flesh? Do you see as a man sees? — Job: 10.4

"Out for a walk with Robert Lowell, Just me and him and my Bell & Howell" — John Berryman

"Every man is the son of his own works."—Miguel de Cervantes

Holdback, Ep. 7: "R. v. Todd (1901)"

Nature and love and happiness have not passed through the waves.

"No one so far knows what the body can do...

Holdback, Ep. 6: "R. v. Todd (1901)"

Newly minted voices, bottomless holes, and other representations and equivalences of binary forms

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