Joe Brainard was born on this day in 1942. He died of AIDS in 1994. I first read his great book I Remember in high school. I was a bookish gay kid and he changed my life. Thank you, Joe. 💙
On the few nice days we get during the term some student will ask if we can have class outside and I always say "fresh air is the enemy of education." #pedagogy
this is brilliant and I thank you
It probably had the z and I edited it because there is no z in Afrikaans. That magazine looks wild.
There used to be a gay bar in Brussels called Het Rijk der Sinnen / L'Empire des Sens.
Exactly! I love Villette and part of my pleasure is saying to myself as I read it "omg Lucy get a grip."
The magnolia tree outside my balcony is starting to bloom. It's a few weeks early, but I need the beauty.
In my province, we're springing forward this Sunday and then never changing again. It's a new world!
You should learn Afrikaans.
It's amazingly good
I LOVE HIM SO MUCH
oh god their little faces
Trollope The Prime Minister
excellent post
You're right. I need to update mine.
I feel the same. Thank you for writing this.
This is astonishing. I am astonished.
they kill you and hang a label around your neck saying "done because you were too prolix"
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perhaps I should stop by Leuven
International Network for the Study of Lyric.
And the birthplace of the waffle! I'm supposed to go to a conference there next year. I've never been.
Happy Valentine's Day! Here is a matchless quatrain from "The Ecstasy" by John Donne.
When love with one another so
Interinanimates two souls,
That abler soul, which thence doth flow,
Defects of loneliness controls.
Drummond is so good.
all we are is ephemera in the wind
really one of the best poems ever
I love the travertine wall
I regularly teach a course (13 weeks) just on Paradise Lost. It's wonderful.
excellent work, Ben
It's amazing. And Belinda is so good.
