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“last night another big one fell…” “but have i fall’n or no?” edgar: “think that the clearest gods, whom make them honors of men’s impossibilities, have preserved thee.” blinded gloucester falling forward in king lear (1623 folio)

“i asked my cab driver what he considered to be the most important event of 1848. with an air of absolute certainty, he told me ‘the death of emily brontë.’” nancy armstrong, desire & domestic fiction, 1987.

“i would rather the house burn down than our flames go out.” frank o’hara, “christmas card to grace hartigan,” 1954.

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“last night another big one fell…” a license plate i miss… john donne tells us to “go and catch a falling star” … “alabama’” rhymes with “hammer” and “drama” the way ella fitzgerald & louis armstrong sing it

what are stars but asterisks to point a human life? “last night another big one fell…a glistening armadillo left the scene…head down, tail down” 1. and 2. eliz. bishop, “the armadillo,” 1965. 3. paul klee, “dieser stern lehrt beugen” / “this star teaches bending,” 1940.

we drive but god steers: “i wandered—rather, i floundered...” “numberless, wond’ring steers and oxen…beef for the army…poor, starving dumb or lowing creatures” elizabeth bishop, “from trollope’s journal: winter, 1861,” 1965.

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jane austen, cutup d.a. miller, jane austen, or the secret of style, 2003.

for me, to think of “lampblack” is to think of a beautiful & kinda strange fragrance by fzotic but also to think of writing “in the dark” in general (cf. india ink) see lewis carroll’s square substitution cipher for night-writing, done with something he called a “nyctograph”

cummings’s festering snow cf. williams’s “encrusted” plum tree… there is something in the liquid-to-solid state change that is purulent and disgusting

this poem has such a palpable (and specifically cold) transposition of ee cummings to me… from ee cummings on the (not absolutely) small hands of the rain to o’hara writing of snow festering on eyelashes “as if they were hands”

frank o’hara, sonnet, january 1953.

i know everyone on this site says “i think about this all the time” as an indicator of like, interest and not as a literal index but i absolutely, positively will never get this (minor) line from kissing jessica stein out of my head

@laura__sonja two kinds of people: those who cut knots & those who untangle them susan stanford friedman, analyzing freud, 2002.

the h.d. - bryher - kenneth macpherson ménage was quite a family…

h.d. gave gay men their own L word: lederer (leder = leather in german) maybe “lilac” too… letter to kenneth macpherson, 7 may 1933

new epithet found under “dressmaking helps” in a routine newspaper trawl my dad said technically it’s my little brother

anne lister’s diary entry for 15 december 1822 still true enough