Full-Bodied Allegory: A Review of FLATLAND
Where Flatland really hits its stride is in Square’s interdimensional travels.
Better Than Buncombe: A Review of THE VINTAGE MENCKEN
I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.
-H. L. Mencken
Reading, Empathy, and the Operation of a Small Business
In order to fix typewriters, I have to care about them. In order to care about them, I have to use them. In order to use them, I have to know how to write. In order to know how to write, I have to read. In order to read, I have to absorb.
“Attention, Kmart Shoppers…”
Gifts, unless plucked from a list of foregone “wants,” are expressions of what one person thinks another to be. It’s almost a kind of game, in which people are thrust, by holiday or hindsight, into attempting to define another by who they believe that person is, inside.
Maternity (Part I)
Happenstance births providence
as a pine tree,
its boughs bent
and overloaded with
so many morsels
of weightless pressure.
