Christian Molenaar

Category: Nothings

  • Their Finest Hour, or, Triumph and Tragedy

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    I, Big George, do solemnly swear that on the second of July I captured my first bug. The reader should be reminded that in the jungle many sounds occur which it is impossible to account for; so that on hearing a sudden crash or wail or plea ahead, the only thing to do is shoot… Read more

  • The Way to Astrophysics

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    July 1, 19431: I was joining the Observatory of Haute-Provence. I was full of emotions and feelings, which certainly had, in a very subtle way, an influence on my scientific life. It was the beginning of an illegal life. I had a complete set of papers (false papers), identity card, food card, and most important… Read more

  • These Swiveled Meanings

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    It’s June and summer’s heightthe longest bride of lightleaps from all the rivetsof the skyYet it’s of earthand nowhere else I have to speakOnly on earth has this light taken onthese swiveled meanings, only on this earthwhere we are dying befouled, gritting our teethlosing our guided stars has this lightfound an alphabet a mouth Read more

  • The Citadel

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    As Péguy said on June 17, 1940: “In war, I side with he who won’t surrender the citadel.” Read more

  • Vase de Noces

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    SALEM, June 15, 1835. – A walk down to the Juniper. The shore of the coves strewn with bunches of sea-weed, driven in by recent winds. Eel-grass, rolled and bundled up, and entangled with it, – large marine vegetables, of an olive-color, with round, slender, snake-like stalks, four or five feet long, and nearly two feet broad:… Read more

  • Three Year Agreement

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    Douglas Sirk’s signature on the 24-page (!) contract he signed with Universal before making Imitation of Life, which Leo Lensing rescued from a Baltimore book dealer. Read more

  • Alternative Hair

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    Shoutout to whatever Liverpool punk collaged this flyer together. I can’t decide which is funnier, “Softly Feminine Nausea: Real Adult Entertainment” or “Mix ‘n’ Match Disaster — What Balls!” Read more

  • Hypothetical Self-Epitaph

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    “Everyone should have an epitaph ready,” Everette Maddox told an interview in one of his rare radio appearances. “Just in case.” Read more

  • Summer of the Just

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    There is a June when Corn is cutAnd Roses in the Seed—A Summer briefer than the firstBut tenderer indeed Read more

  • Over the Town

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    I’ve just watched Daniel Schmid’s La Paloma which has almost immediately joined the ranks of my personal canon. Read more

Thought:

“—existences dismantled and laid out side by side—”

William Gaddis

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