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work, but his characteristic wish is to work as well as possible.
Wendell Berry • The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
Edwidge Danticat story: “Shame is heavier than a hundred bags of salt.”
Alexander Chee • The Best American Essays 2022
Eliot had only one pair of shoes, black ones. They had a crackle finish as a result of an experiment. Eliot once tried to polish them with Johnson's Glo-Coat, which was a floorwax, not intended for shoes. One shoe was on his desk. The other was in the lavatory, on the rim of the washbasin. A maroon nylon sock, with garter attached, was in each shoe
... See moreKurt Vonnegut • God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater: A Novel
only the first step.
Death: a thrift store mirror, cracked in all the bright places.
Roadkill. How it talks back.
Question : Are we there yet?
Feel the wind coming in fours.
Listen to the seasons galloping. The hunters dropping
quail mid-flight.
Kneel if you’ll take me, lips flushed past open.
Kneel any... See more
Notes for the Newly Winged
Downstream at the island’s tip where the giant water bug clasped and ate the living frog, I sat and sucked at my own dry knuckles. It was the way that frog’s eyes crumpled. His mouth was a gash of terror; the shining skin of his breast and shoulder shivered once and sagged, reduced to an empty purse; but oh those two snuffed eyes! They crinkled, th
... See moreAnnie Dillard • Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
father. But I was wrong. It was just a man.