More specifically concerning: edgar allan poe
paper bullets of the brain
3 September 2011, around 8.04.
After a while books grow matter of fact like everything else and we always think enviously of the days when they were new and wonderful and strange. That’s a part of existence. We lose our first keen relish for literature just as we lose it for ice-cream and confectionery. The taste grows older, wiser and […]
Poe
19 January 2016, around 5.29.
Mina Loy lights a candle.
Crambe repetita (43)
15 May 2016, around 6.53.
Poe, ‘The Philosophy of Furniture’.
the idleness ethic
21 December 2019, around 4.42.
Such virtues and vices as he may have possessed seem to have been of the passive sort, always a matter of omission.
de monstra demonstranda
22 February 2024, around 11.26.
Medea, bad mommy extraordinaire, engaging in a bit of light witchcraft, illustration by Johann Wilhelm Baur to Ovid (ca. 1640s) The school of Criticism has made known in print its superiority to human feelings and the world, above which it sits enthroned in sublime solitude, with nothing but an occasional roar of sarcastic laughter from […]