Diary

What a mouth will do

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Kiss the impossible hope that love will last. An end to looking as if for one glove. Swallow the sweet lust of fruit—one way a body can be pleased. Tell others why. Tell others nothing. Feel the tongue and how goodness and mercy can flow like a river from the north or how it can rage as only rage can and know there isn’t much to say after that. “What a image [Read More]
Curious News, Diary

Twitter Yourself into a Historical Figure

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The New York Times reports that the Library of Congress will archive the collected works of Twitter, the blogging service, whose users currently send a daily flood of 55 million messages, all that contain 140 or fewer characters. Library officials explained the agreement as another step in the library’s embrace of digital media. Twitter, the image [Read More]
Diary

Fiction: The Use of Poetry

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After watching the film “Atonement”, the name “Ian McEwan” is burned into my mind. His recent story in the New Yorker starts out very strong and was a pleasure to read. It surprised no one to learn that Michael Beard had been an only child, and he would have been the first to concede image [Read More]
Diary

Getting Obama Right

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DAVID BROOKS (NY Times) responds the last week’s column by Frank Rich and explains why it is so difficult for Obama to create on overarching narrative. The poltical odds seem to have changed. Right now the money is on health care passing. Who is Barack Obama? If you ask a conservative Republican, you are likely to hear image [Read More]