Dos Passos has gradually become one of my favorite American novelists.

The metaphorical manner of understanding things does not simply go away when the logic of the metaphor is proved incorrect. Only the logic withers. The metaphor hardens as a factual node, but we can no longer articulate “why.” It remains because we need a hinge for our structure.

I’m not sure what they’re doing with the Cloud Atlas-esque time jumps or why the title is in quotation marks: “Wuthering Heights” (or why they would call say it’s inspired by The Greatest Love Story of All Time) but I’ll give it a chance. youtu.be/3fLCdIYShEQ?si…

Which of the three Christmas ghosts was Mamdani for Trump?

Back to where I began (without knowing anything was beginning), but this time with one of her other works.

Today was Emily Dickinson’s birthday, so I made her coconut cake. She said Thanks —

It’s nice to know that I’m not the only one who can’t figure out how to paginate my notes.