In a dream I saw Jesus hanging on the cross, bloodied, battered, suffering. But he quickly tired of it and said, “Enough! This is silly.” He pulled a nail completely through one of his wrists, extracted the other, then loosed his feet and hopped to the ground. He took off the crown of thorns, kicked [...]
Everyone knows Renault. Born in 1900, he was among those who, in the Jazz Age, caught the eye of Gertrude Stein and was regularly invited to her salon. He achieved this coup by degrees: First by charming Alice B. Toklas and then by painting a portrait of Miss Stein that was second only to Picasso’s [...]
It is late and we should not be talking. Instead we should be drifting in separate carriages toward the edge of sleep: I ought to be solving in my dreams Newtonian gravitational equations and considering the moon’s effect on human tides, and she should be drifting into astronomical declinations, rearranging in her own precise way [...]
In case you hadn’t already figured it out, I am a shape shifter, a person of no definite mass or form, one of only a handful like me, destined, almost certainly, to extinction. I don’t mind it. Now is the hour of rigid things, of scientific structure and technological accuracy. Fascism always brings with it [...]