Hexagon

"Out for a walk with Robert Lowell, Just me and him and my Bell & Howell" — John Berryman

"Every man is the son of his own works."—Miguel de Cervantes

Holdback, Ep. 7: "R. v. Todd (1901)"

Nature and love and happiness have not passed through the waves.

"No one so far knows what the body can do...

Holdback, Ep. 6: "R. v. Todd (1901)"

Newly minted voices, bottomless holes, and other representations and equivalences of binary forms

WARNING: The following contains language and imagery. Please proceed with caution.

Holdback, Ep. 5: "R. v. Todd (1901)"

“Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?” Chico Marx, 1933

Ever since I had the strength to gnaw a bone, I have had the desire to speak, to say things that I stored away in my memory; but once in there, old and numerous, they either got mouldy or I forgot them.—Dialogue of the Dogs, Miguel de Cervantes, 1617

Holdback, Ep. 4: "R. v. Todd (1901)"

Stopping the Clocks: Ten Theses on Writing

(survival of the sentient)

“Love and be loved! I neither want more nor aspire to greater fortune.”—Leandro Fernández de Moratín Love. Recently, Goya had come to consider Moratín less as a national treasure and more as a source of nettling vexation. This was principally because the poet, still called Younger Moratín (though he was 68), was always asking Goya for money and, worse, couldn’t keep his eyes off Leocadia. He stared just as lasciviously at Mariquita, who was only 17 and by far the most luminous object in Goya’s universe.

Holdback, Ep. 3: "R. v. Todd (1901)"

Equivalent to the making of gestures or facial expressions, or other actions similar to these, or caresses and gesticulations that serve no real purpose.

I have hardly anything in common with myself and should sit in a corner in silence, content that I can breathe. —Franz Kafka Later, settled into a different armchair, unsure what had just happened, the blood pooling in his head imperceptible to the frenzy of guests eating his food and drinking his wine, his focus returns to the hazy figure of his mistress as she makes her way through the crowded room, charming the men by rebuking them and ruffling the feathers of their tight-laced wives. He imagines the looks she gives, the bewitching flash in her grey-green eyes as she steers to a new prey, leaving the last one silenced and flushed. Leocadia Weiss is rarely the most beautiful woman in a room, but almost always the most attractive. What is she saying? She bends down to him, close enough for him to see her frown, and stares into his eyes. Then she writes something in the Conversation Book, which is on his lap, and disappears into the unfocussed mass.

Holdback, Ep. 2: "R. v. Todd (1901)"

“What’s he mean, calling me a dentist? I wouldn’t hurt anybody, let alone a tooth.” —William Saroyan, The Time of Your Life, 1939.