The agreeable eye

an eudæmonistarchives

More specifically concerning: manuscript

Shoot the messenger

5 August 2003, around 8.07.

These characters, which now are wet and glossy, will become invisible when they are dried, being of the same colour as the substance on which We write. Such is the nature of this magic, that neither sweat nor water will affect it. —Don Tarquinio (xiii)

tetrad

31 August 2008, around 0.12.

We always associate the word ‘book’ with printing, and think of it in terms of format and typographical convenience, but such mechanical criteria do not apply to notebooks, whose beginning and end are determined only by the unity of the poetic impulse which gives birth to a given series of poems. In other words, a […]

ego hoc feci mm–MMXXIV · cc 2000–2024 M.F.C.

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