Christian Molenaar

Category: Nothings

  • Soon We’ll Be Eating

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    The longest word in the Greek language is λοπαδο­τεμαχο­σελαχο­γαλεο­κρανιο­λειψανο­δριμυπο­τριμματο­σιλφιο­καραβομελιτο­κατα­κεχυμενο­κιχλεπικοσσυφοφαττο­περιστεραλεκτρυονοπτο­κεφαλλιο­κιγκλοπελειο­λαγῳοσιραιο­βαφητραγανο­πτερύγων. Read more

  • Somewhere Far North

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    It is a light blue moonless summer evening, but late, perhaps ten o’clock, with Venus burning hard in daylight, so we are certainly somewhere far north, and standing on this balcony, when from beyond along the coast comes the gathering thunder of a long many-engined freight train, thunder because though we are separated by this Read more

  • Left, Right, Center

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    Left the house at the end of the day and I was just going to go to the store and get some stuff for the kids, to get some stuff for the boys and then by the time I get there, you know, and all the stuff I need to find is hidden on the Read more

  • Phenomenon

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    It seems to me that space is the same as divinity Read more

  • Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day

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    Ah little recks the laborer, How near his work is holding him to God. The loving Laborer through space and time. Whitman, “Song of the Exposition” Read more

  • Comedy of Remarriage

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    When Hannah and I got married nearly five years ago, we agreed to read vows of our own writing at the ceremony. When the time came for me to read my vows, I was so overcome with emotion I found the words on the paper could do nothing to capture the sensation of the moment, Read more

  • Strangers on a Train

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    I want an Amtrak hamburger. And a coffee. Read more

  • July 5

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    Kafka’s diary, July 5, 1914 Read more

  • July 1

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    Kafka’s diary, July 1, 1914 Read more

  • Memorial Day

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    After the ceremony we went out for dim sum and argued about our apartment. When our Lyft driver came he said we were his first partiers of the night. We told him we were going to my mom’s house. He was listening to a podcast about Memorial Day. The host spoke in low, grave tones, Read more

Thought:

“The better the singer’s voice, the harder it is to believe what they’re saying, so I used my faults to an advantage.”

David Byrne

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