Welcome to my world, this week anyway. This surely can't be a "good" picture, technically speaking, though my half-mad subject makes me want to figure out how to take one. But I'm happy in any case with its small capture of wild unraveling frenzy.
The personage involved is (seemingly overnight) exploding with language — cracker, money, airplane, baby — it's intoxicating to listen while it all suddenly manifests in this realm.
I keep thinking that these posts ought to be notes on something (rather than attempting to be something) or like Wile E. Coyote I am going to end up one day dangling in mid-air.
Followed by a very uncartoonish fall from grace. Till then I will continue in my merry (or should it be my wicked or at least my daffy) caddywumpus way.
This morning that means splurging on cups of green Lung Ching Dragon Well tea and thinking about a blurb for somebody. Reading Marianne Moore's dust jacket copy, which Wayne Koestenbaum recommends here as "fanatical exercise[s] of a personality sculpted in the privacy of the bedroom/atelier." That sounds about right.
Noticing a word strewn through them, over and over, and not of course accidentally: verity. Verity! So quaint.
A foot-wrong that would be expunged from any self-respecting bit of puffery today.
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