marcela 211110
josefine 200815
emily 240113
steven 240115
See as well "Night, Youth, Paris and the Moon" by John Collier.
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Sunday, October 1, 2023
From the Vulgar Latin Muse — Pint, Pinter, Pinterest
"Pint comes from the Old French word pinte and perhaps ultimately
from Vulgar Latin pincta meaning 'painted,' for marks painted on
the side of a container to show capacity.*
* "Pint," Merriam-Webster.com. 2013. Retrieved 31 May 2013."
"Ride a painted pony . . ." — Play It as It Lays song
"I love you Mony Mony . . . ." — Another song
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Friday, August 11, 2023
First-Wife Advice
Some unsolicited, but good, advice this afternoon
from my first wife —
"Forty-two percent of reviews on Amazon are fake."
(Brandishing a July 4 copy of Consumer Reports ).
Related image . . .
…230811-Marcelanow-Amazon-box-
MADE_WITH_LESS_MATERIAL.jpg
"Ride a painted pony, let the spinning wheel spin." — Song Lyric
"I love you Mony Mony . . . ." — Another song
Related art from http://m759.net/wordpress/?p=104669 —
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Saturday, January 29, 2022
Thursday, September 16, 2021
“Thank you for sharing!” — Mensa and Beyond
The references in the previous post to November 1985 suggest . . .
The provocative pencil in the above image suggests
a review of the word "desmic" in this journal —
.
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Thursday, August 20, 2020
Saturday, August 15, 2020
Gentlemen Prefer . . .
“What of the night
That lights and dims the stars?
Do you know, Hans Christian,
Now that you see the night?”
— The concluding lines of “Sonatina to Hans Christian,”
by Wallace Stevens (in Harmonium (second edition, 1931))
“Never a little tea-party of white young lady foxes”
— The Snow Queen , by Hans Christian Andersen
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Falling in Lust Again… Can’t Help It
” Once he opens these gates, Harry will flood his audience
with his redemptive epiphanic impression that ‘the world
was saturated with love.’ ”
— Liesl Schillinger, review of Mark Helprin’s novel
In Sunlight and in Shadow
Not to mention the MILF of human kindness.
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Waiting for the Light at the End of Daisy’s Dock
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Lives of the Painters: Dutch Boy
“Harry decides his chief peacetime duty is to use his
gift for gab to further his ‘overriding purpose,’ namely:
‘By recalling the past and freezing the present he could
open the gates of time and through them see all
allegedly sequential things as a single masterwork
with neither boundaries nor divisions.’ Once he opens
these gates, Harry will flood his audience with his
redemptive epiphanic impression that ‘the world was
saturated with love.’ ”
— Liesl Schillinger, review of Mark Helprin’s novel
In Sunlight and in Shadow in The New York Times ,
Oct. 5, 2012
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“Add a Comment” (Instagram, St. Andrew’s Day 2013)
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