Christian Molenaar

Category: Nothings

  • Divination and Volition

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    I got back to San Diego late last night, parked the rental car at Enterprise and threw the keys in the dropbox. The drive wasn’t bad, though I probably didn’t need to stop at both Pea Soup Andersen’s and Bravo Farms. Maybe it’s simply because I grew up in one, but I can never turn… Read more

  • Calves

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    There’s more to a mother than the kitchen at night with everything put back and the oven light on. There is, for example, her big leather purse. The sadness of her birthdays. Her cursive singing voice. The way her dry white calves eventually became your own. Simone Harris And happy 77th birthday to Miuccia Prada,… Read more

  • The Fourth Dimension

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    All this, and still more the treasures which had come to the church from personages who to me were almost legendary figures (such as the golden cross wrought, it was said, by Saint Eloi and presented by Dagobert, and the tomb of the sons of Louis the Germanic in porphyry and enamelled copper) because of… Read more

  • Three Fragments Overheard in Tucson, AZ

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    Scene: a Tiki Bar. Read more

  • This Staggering May Day

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    In fact, I’m improving.This staggering May Day—Lacking your presenceA solid week—I nonetheless hearYour telephone voiceIn a luxury of trust,A swell of thanksMy memory bearsNo precedent for.Further, I seemNear sane in the mirrorsI’ve passed since dawn. Read more

  • White Telephone

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    The day Rome was founded, April 21, but April 21, 1937. And so it was movies and Rome and babies and Mussolini and Papa the great industrialist, all together for a photograph. Read more

  • Hardly One Copy Would Sell Here

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    Rejection letter sent to Gertrude Stein by A. C. Fifield, April 19, 1912 Read more

  • Manhunt Through Maryland

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    At first the sound had no meaning.The shot came from the balcony,as if the play had sprung an annex,and I, John Sleeper Clarke,pictured stars through oak scaffoldsas the news traveled overthe chairscape like a stain. Read more

  • Background Music

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    Tove Jansson, Sun City Read more

  • Ash Wednesday Feast

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    In 1818 the Paschal Full Moon fell on Saturday, March 21st, making March 22nd the earliest ever Easter Sunday (by both the Western (Gregorian) and the Orthodox (Julian) calendar), a date which will not recur until 2285. So why does Tokarczuk pick March 1st for Ash Wednesday, which would place Easter on the impossibly early… Read more

Thought:

“It is a mistake to think that books have come to stay. The human race did without them for thousands of years and may decide to do without them again.“

E.M. Forster

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