Augusto Monterroso wrote the world's greatest (very) short story about an eclipse.

nyers always get so excited when earth-stuff happens to them. 99% of the time, they seem to genuinely forget that they live on an earth.

If a magazine ever sent me on a cruise (god forbid), I would mention this fact in the opening graf

A page from the first draft of Matthiessen's novel, 'Far Tortuga.'

If Zadie ever decides to write an autobildungsroman, the title is already right there, just waiting to be plucked

A little love story - Edward James, patron of the surrealists, was so besotted with his wife, the dancer Tilly Losch, that when he saw the trail of wet footprints she left up the stairs after her bath at Monkton House, he had them woven into the carpet.

Two guys just pulled up beside my husband in a white Mercedes SUV, asked him for directions, tried to get him to lean his head through the window to inspect their map, then offered him a gold ring(??), and, when he didn't take it, sped away.

Anyone know what that was about?

A bright and shining example of the suicidal absurdity of technocapitalist society occurs every year at this time, all across the country.
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I might as well go on
addressing the birches,
as in my former life: let them
do their worst, let them
bury me with the Romantics,
their pointed yellow leaves
falling and covering me.

—Louise Glück, 1943-2023

So many beautiful, taut, thanotological lines by Glück one could mention today. But these seem to me to best capture the nature of her steady, paradoxical, decades-long gaze into the abyss.

This is a pivotal and historic moment for #Canada , #energy and #climate .
I am proud to say that I will be testifying, too.
#oilandgas + #CO2 = #ClimateEmergency + #wildfires #canpoli

Weird how Nicolas Cage’s dad looks exactly like an older version of the young Nicolas Cage, but nothing like what Nicolas Cage looks like now that he’s older