Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
On her fourteenth birthday, he gives her a bowdlerized translation of Ovid’s Metamorphosis.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
poor lived in a world of "make believe" and achieved "greater and greater flights of imagination."
Harvey R. Neptune • Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation
I was lost in my fantasy, ignoring Dave Brubeck and coming up for air only when my father elbowed my ribs to ask, “Are you listening to this? These cats are burning the paint right off the walls!”
David Sedaris • Me Talk Pretty One Day
anathema
Alice Walker • The Color Purple
Edwidge Danticat story: “Shame is heavier than a hundred bags of salt.”
Alexander Chee • The Best American Essays 2022
“Are they real?
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
derelict
Exurb1a • The Fifth Science
is now revealed to me to be absurd and in a certain way obscene,