Impossible Kisses

Reports from the Goblin Universe (or, Shadows on the Analemma)

Wednesday, November 07, 2012

The Call Of The Goblins

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“Lie close,” Laura said, Pricking up her golden head: “We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon w...
Tuesday, November 06, 2012

Mother And Daughter At The Writing Desk

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Today I’ve got a couple of things that are not directly related to each other, but since they’re both more or less about the same subject...
Monday, November 05, 2012

What The Dinosaurs See

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She held the torn picture of a guitar in her hand. She looked around. There was nothing to see but wreckage. And there was no music, on...
Friday, November 02, 2012

The Prettiest Ophelia Is An Asteroid

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8347 Lallaward (1987 HK) Classification: Main-belt Asteroid SPK-ID: 2008347 Discovered 1987 Apr. 21 by C. S. Shoemaker and E. M. Sho...
Thursday, November 01, 2012

Ode To A Louisiana Sinkhole

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Digging Britney Redux Of all the holes I’d like to fall into I think I’d like to fall into you most. Are there dinosaurs down t...
Wednesday, October 31, 2012

A Story About Monsters For Halloween

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A few months ago I did a post about birds in a big parking lot near here, Change: Sudden, Incomprehensible And Deadly . A large departm...
Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Strange Energies Of The Twentieth Century

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We would be driving along and spot a Christmas tree lying perhaps in the front yard of somebody’s lovely house in Pacific Heights or besi...
Monday, October 29, 2012

Real Things, Not Real Things And Other Things

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I don’t have much for today, but a couple of the things I have are really interesting to me, so I’m going to post about this stuff today ...
Friday, October 26, 2012

But That’s How A Melville Metaphor Ends

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In the mind’s ocean every woman’s bare shoulder is a great white whale. The Mind’s Ocean “O head! thou has seen enough to split...
Thursday, October 25, 2012

Plastic Snow? (A Saturn Update)

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Polythene is a British variant of the word polyethylene, a plastic material. The name 'Polythene Pam' came from the nickname of a...
Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Birds Know About Wires

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Electric Golgotha Sense Of Place All The...
Tuesday, October 23, 2012

“Midnight Flowers”

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Bricks and broken porcelain Cut my back where she pushed me to the ground In the alley there was no other sound Except our screams ...
Monday, October 22, 2012

On Stepping Into The Surround

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Rembrandt images like this often have a wide, dark surround. This separates the internal image, arranged by Rembrandt’s aesthetics, from ...
Friday, October 19, 2012

Ophelia’s Songs

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Part One: Ophelia’s Songs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “On a synthesizer,” she said, “I can ...
Thursday, October 18, 2012

Ophelia’s Flowers

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“You like my Teva shoes, don’t you, Gale?” I asked. “Actually, I think Nike shoes probably would be more cool,” Gale said. Everyone k...
Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Real And ‘Real’ Liminal Entities

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“It is cinema as a dream. In dreams, people act strangely. One sequence doesn’t seem to match, exactly, to other sequences. It’s cinema a...
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