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Therapy

Meanwhile, at a different office… ​ Click (or tap) Marissa for The Story of N.

Cultural Programming

The title refers to yesterday's 9 PM (ET) post. " 'Relax,' said the night man. " — Eagles "With a style evoking the golden age of Hollywood…" See also…

Occupy Space

(Continued)  Three Notes on Design 1.  From the Museum of Modern Art  today— “It’s a very nice gesture of a kind of new ethos: To make publicly accessible, unticketed…

Not Subversive, Not Fantasy

The title refers to that of today's previous post, which linked to a song from the June 1, 1983, album Synchronicity . (Cf.  that term in this journal.) For some work…

Subversive Fantasy

Maureen Dowd on "Downton Abbey" (yesterday's online NY Times) — "Watching the saga from the beginning this week, I saw the extent of the subversive fantasy: The servants rule…

Moving On…

"The first credential  we should demand of a critic  is his ideograph of the good." – Ezra Pound,   How to Read A spoiler from the 1974 novel in last…

Last Year's Valentine

A review… 1. Of posts a year ago today 2. Of posts from last year's Valentine Day A preview… "It is time to tell you of Faith and…

See More Glass

The first story of "The Snow Queen, in Seven Stories" by Hans Christian Andersen (1845) (see yesterday morning)— Story the First, Which Describes a Looking-Glass and the Broken Fragments…

For the Padres

"I'm sorry to be catechizing you like this." — The girl in "What Dead Men Tell," by Theodore Sturgeon Q — "Why walk when you can fly?" — Mary…

Triumph of the Will

"… the human will cannot be simultaneously triumphant and imaginary." — Ross Douthat, Defender of the Faith,      in this afternoon's New York Times  at 3:25* PM…