A brief vignette born of my private and daily existence. Continue reading “The Devils on My Shoulder, the Angels at My Back”
Category: Dreams & Musings
The Heart is Wrapped in Scarlet Thread
“He said to me, ‘recall me if thou canst; Thyself wast made before I was unmade.’”
—Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno Continue reading “The Heart is Wrapped in Scarlet Thread”
The Mind is a Museum
~ by which it curates its own madness Continue reading “The Mind is a Museum”
A Few New Stitches in the Body
“Yes, the waiting is delicious; getting drunk while waiting is delicious (I am, as always in writing, at once the scientist and the rat he disembowels for research).”
–Hervé Guibert Continue reading “A Few New Stitches in the Body”
The Dream house Revisited
“Ma maison cachait un secret au fond de son coeur…” Continue reading “The Dream house Revisited”
On the Queer Nature of Wonderland
“But when you have to turn into a chrysalis…and then after that into a butterfly, I should think you’ll feel it a little queer, won’t you?” Continue reading “On the Queer Nature of Wonderland”
Fragments of Fiction, Craft My Exquisite Corpse
Because the world I live in is not the world I dream of. Continue reading “Fragments of Fiction, Craft My Exquisite Corpse”
Christmas Is a Time for Ghosts
And winter wonderland is full of holy terrors. Continue reading “Christmas Is a Time for Ghosts”
A Midwinter Night’s Dream
Floating fragments of winter-spring dreams, guardians of prophecies, frenetic notebook entries—my own cabinet de curiosités, made of paper and ink—strung together to achieve some sphere of meaning. Continue reading “A Midwinter Night’s Dream”
I Cast a Tempest for You, my Love. Did You Feel It?
Another Stream Storm of Consciousness Continue reading “I Cast a Tempest for You, my Love. Did You Feel It?”
a literary labyrinth 