Christian Molenaar

Category: Nothings

  • Rapture

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    That night we had friends over for dinner and the talk was swift and funny, flying cross-table well past midnight, and when they were gone but also while they were there — they were still there when I felt the distance and stillness of that sprawled dawn like some endless sky waking inside me, flared… Read more

  • Chopin’s Heart

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    It is widely known that Chopin died at two o’clock in the morning (‘aux petites heures de la nuit,’ as French Wikipedia tells us) on 17 October 1849. Read more

  • October 13, 1918

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    And it has stopped raining, it hasn’t rained for days and I’m no longer dreaming about wet feet, I’m wide awake. And definitely confused. Read more

  • Nonsense Quotes

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    Carlos Saura, the director of The Hunt (during his film festival visit to New York — after viewing Thanatopsis, Vivian, Chulum, Jerovi, The Dead and Amphetamine): Read more

  • The Pink of Morning

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    I’m loosed from my bed, an arrowand sit in the ringinghollow darknessand go out hollow into the colddark wanderinguntil the skyis latticed by the pink of morning Read more

  • Line Breaks, Wine Breaks

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    Dorothea Lasky in The Paris Review: Read more

  • August 26, 17—

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    The myth is unchained: it staggers north,insane. A ghost of lightning glowsin its eyes; its slow hands close in wrathlike child’s hands seizing flowers. Read more

  • Letting Go

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    From the journals of Bernice Bing Read more

  • There Will Come Soft Rains

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    “Today is August 4, 2026,” said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling, “in the city of Allendale, California.” Read more

  • Remarkable Characters

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    July 29th. — Remarkable characters: — A disagreeable figure, waning from middle age, clad in a pair of tow homespun pantaloons, and a very soiled shirt, barefoot, and with one of his feet maimed by an axe; also an arm amputated two or three inches below the elbow. His beard of a week’s growth, grim… Read more

Thought:

“Lifestyle: Don’t want one. Haven’t had one for thirty years. We don’t seem to need a lifestyle.”

J. G. Ballard | Millennium People

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