Christian Molenaar

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  • She Liked the Drifting Away

    March 14, 2025

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    Fun typographical error from Tove Jansson’s Sun City, NYRB’s most recent book club pick. Read more

  • The Ice Caves, or Rather, Caves of Ice

    March 13, 2025

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    Donald Barthelme, “The Expedition” Read more

  • Paleopetrology

    March 11, 2025

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    11 March 2004. Somewhere amidst the fog of the Net, behind a seemingly forgotten website, in Hyperstition’s password-protected laboratory — a location for exploring a diverse range of subjects from the occult to fictional quantities, from warmachines to bacterial archeology, heresy-engineering and decimal sorceries (Qabalah, Schizomath, Decimal Labyrinth and Tic-xenotation), and swarming with renegade academics,… Read more

  • Tax Season

    March 3, 2025

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    What sort of lien? It’s been attached by the IRS. Read more

  • A Leonine First

    March 1, 2025

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    Snow pyramided the old Chevy and drifted deep in the streets, so Miller walked over, feeling faintly ridiculous. Hark ye to the White Bird. Oh boy. In the wind, he chainsmoked, lighting from the butt end of the old the new. The snow flew, though he could see, during lulls, that not much new snow… Read more

  • Unquenchable

    February 24, 2025

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    “He’s very close to being the shade of the walls, isn’t he, and the shade of the walls is exactly the color of the inside of Rothko’s forearm. That’s the color he always wanted as the backdrop for his paintings, you know. Pale ivory with a slight, yellowish cast, the color of Cellutex.” She pursed… Read more

  • Ravaged

    February 22, 2025

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    A short corollary to December’s ramble on Apollo: Melville’s “The Ravaged Villa.” Read more

  • Mike’s Birthday

    February 21, 2025

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    In the morning I dragged myself sleeping from the second connecting bus into your cafe, ordered a triple hammerhead and told myself I was ready for a job interview. Read more

  • Germans

    February 20, 2025

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    In the dream he watched some ersatz lothario press up against his wife after hearing her say you’d never be able to give her a million dollars and the man offered her a new life which excited her and they kissed and it reminded him of a dream her father had told her where his… Read more

  • Anamnesis

    February 20, 2025

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    The girl from the pharmacy who delivered Darvon to Philip K. Dick, the science fiction writer, wore a golden fish necklace. Read more

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Thought:

“It’s true that even though I’m a world unto myself, I’ve just a speck of dust in the avalanche of events. But nothing will ever force me to think like a speck of dust!”

Stanisław Lem