The city put a sticker on my 2005 Toyota Corolla, which has been parked on the street in front of my apartment, undriven for several months now, rusting, lying in weeds and spiderwebs, under fallen branches and leaves, absorbing rounds of bird shit and sap and whirligigs and bug husks, leaking noxious fluids, factory corrosives, engine burning radioactive swill staining the asphalt and then washed by flaming rains into city drinking water, the interior an archeological site of a man’s wasted years, his long thoughtless days of abundant trashy acts, a modern art exhibit of accelerating indulgence, a car that, by its inertia, its grim fixity, offers a window into the creep of time, earth’s time, the implacable trudging ground coming to swallow all zooming motoring zipping figures, massive and puny alike, from the most active to the least, from pistons to bowls of pudding, whether organic or not, intended to last or designed to die on a tight schedule, a time at our heels and also cracking underfoot, a rotting time that sprouts from within, from a soil our spades never reach, the time of our undoing we can never uproot; a sticker informing the owner along with all curious onlookers and concerned neighbors and caustic mocking wildlife that if the car doesn’t move in seventy two hours, it will be towed and expenses will be incurred.
“But I do have a book coming out soon.” Felt like the most casual declination of surrender. Side note, we seem to work the exact job in the exact same hell! Really enjoyed this one.
I sure as hell am looking forward to your new book, Caleb. I literally just finished reading Novelty and Other Stories and was blown away. It is one of the best short story collections I have ever read. Every story was great, especially the longer ones. I loved "Fatter," "Antechinus," "Blood Basin," the title story, and "The Elevator."
thanks you mr president, according to what we discussed
"Mental things alone are real. Where there is no distinction between wish and deed."
So said Blake and Novalis asserted the notion that the world is the creation of the magic power of fantasy. The poetical is political, and the political is life. "Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life."
If I weren’t already reading far too much, I’d be reading Blake
“But I do have a book coming out soon.” Felt like the most casual declination of surrender. Side note, we seem to work the exact job in the exact same hell! Really enjoyed this one.
I sure as hell am looking forward to your new book, Caleb. I literally just finished reading Novelty and Other Stories and was blown away. It is one of the best short story collections I have ever read. Every story was great, especially the longer ones. I loved "Fatter," "Antechinus," "Blood Basin," the title story, and "The Elevator."
Glad to hear it, Bradley, means a whole hell
of a lot
Vinagrettes it is, pass the salad for a chewy feast ahead.
I'm going to alert everyone I know who's passionate about contemporary confessional lit - oops, just remembered, that's only you and Noah Rymer.
Just kidding, of course there's a whole bunch of us looking forward to this and I'm sure it's gonna be wonderful stuff.
Thanks, Murph. Entertaining a select few is just fine with me, and it seems to be good company
Congratulations!
Thank you much
Am advancing with the 'reverse-engineered religion' quite well
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/20/us/politics/biden-nuclear-china-russia.html
thanks you mr president, according to what we discussed
"Mental things alone are real. Where there is no distinction between wish and deed."
So said Blake and Novalis asserted the notion that the world is the creation of the magic power of fantasy. The poetical is political, and the political is life. "Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life."
“They fight in the sky for the nation”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLbIoWQJRIs (Пора в путь дорогу)
The phatricide of the century
Verbum Vincet