verywide.net » Literature http://verywide.net/blog Just trying to catch butterflies, fish, lunatics, and stars, metaphorically speaking. Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:17:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Recalled 001: “Your Spiral Tongue” http://verywide.net/blog/2009/01/24/recalled-001-your-spiral-tongue/ http://verywide.net/blog/2009/01/24/recalled-001-your-spiral-tongue/#comments Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:32:00 +0000 Moody http://verywide.net/blog/?p=207 [The following work was originally posted to my LiveJournal. I am giving it a new home here, as I plan to do with several other entries from my past journals. This piece is from March of 2005.]

This is the train I am on. I feel the wheels passing over the joints between the long, narrow, [...]

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This is one of my favorite sites to visit. What you are presented with is an active Google map of the city with placemarks to identify where each story happens. You also get a few pictures that link to the various [...]

]]> http://verywide.net/blog/2008/12/27/hitotoki-a-narrative-map-of-tokyo/feed/ 0 Not thinking it out, just writing it as it comes… http://verywide.net/blog/2008/01/21/not-thinking-it-out-just-writing-it-as-it-comes/ http://verywide.net/blog/2008/01/21/not-thinking-it-out-just-writing-it-as-it-comes/#comments Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:22:56 +0000 Moody http://verywide.net/blog/2008/01/21/not-thinking-it-out-just-writing-it-as-it-comes/ It should be easier to explain than this.

To touch someone’s hand as you walk together through grass that reaches up past your calves to tickle that spot behind your knees. The smile that’s shared then. Not at all tentative, although you might think that’s what it is you see; boldness, actually, beneath the warm, translucent [...]

]]> http://verywide.net/blog/2008/01/21/not-thinking-it-out-just-writing-it-as-it-comes/feed/ 2 Earth Day, A Moral Fable http://verywide.net/blog/2007/04/22/earth-day-%e2%80%94-a-moral-fable/ http://verywide.net/blog/2007/04/22/earth-day-%e2%80%94-a-moral-fable/#comments Sun, 22 Apr 2007 18:53:52 +0000 Moody http://verywide.net/blog/2007/04/22/earth-day-%e2%80%94-a-moral-fable/ ONCE UPON A TIME, right here and not far away at all, there was a little blue-green-brown world orbiting a common – but no less glorious for that – yellow star. Under the bright golden-white light of their star, even on cloudy days, many living things lived and died on this planet. The really dominant [...]

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From those two hands wring silence, iron wrought, Mold it as clay, as if by willing dream, And lay it there upon a page. There, caught, Pinned and framed, ready for the book's close seam, What is it you have found? A nightingale? A frog? an imp? a rose imperious? Have you a tiger by her paper tail? -- How sweetly disappoints [...]

]]> http://verywide.net/blog/2006/04/24/silence-iron-wrought/feed/ 0 I want Alan Cumming, dressed up as Mercury, to read this at my funeral… http://verywide.net/blog/2006/04/04/i-want-alan-cumming-dressed-up-as-mercury-to-read-this-at-my-funeral/ http://verywide.net/blog/2006/04/04/i-want-alan-cumming-dressed-up-as-mercury-to-read-this-at-my-funeral/#comments Tue, 04 Apr 2006 16:35:23 +0000 Moody http://verywide.net/blog/2006/04/04/i-want-alan-cumming-dressed-up-as-mercury-to-read-this-at-my-funeral/ They say that life `round here is tragicomic, With a-bombs and aplomb and much sardonic; It depends on point of view (though these words i might just rue), But much there is that simply says "moronic".

Of course I don't refer at all to you. I know there isn't fuck-all one can do. There's what we have, for what it's worth, Like Queequeg's [...]

]]> http://verywide.net/blog/2006/04/04/i-want-alan-cumming-dressed-up-as-mercury-to-read-this-at-my-funeral/feed/ 0 Rest in Peace, Octavia Butler http://verywide.net/blog/2006/02/27/rest-in-peace-octavia-butler/ http://verywide.net/blog/2006/02/27/rest-in-peace-octavia-butler/#comments Mon, 27 Feb 2006 13:51:20 +0000 Moody http://verywide.net/blog/2006/02/27/rest-in-peace-octavia-butler/ The writings of Octavia E. Butler will always be insightful, beautiful, ahead of the curve. She will be very sorely missed by many.

]]> http://verywide.net/blog/2006/02/27/rest-in-peace-octavia-butler/feed/ 0 With time on my hands, I read. (Pt. 2) http://verywide.net/blog/2006/01/12/with-time-on-my-hands-i-read-pt-2/ http://verywide.net/blog/2006/01/12/with-time-on-my-hands-i-read-pt-2/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2006 00:27:56 +0000 Moody http://verywide.net/blog/2006/01/12/with-time-on-my-hands-i-read-pt-2/ Current and imminent reading:

The Ancestor’s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution, by Richard Dawkins

Thanks to 3 Quarks Daily for pointing me in the direction of this work. I sincerely hope you’ll take a look at Dawkins’s 2004 “Notable Book of the Year” (and, yes, I know it’s 2006, now, thank you – but [...]

]]> http://verywide.net/blog/2006/01/12/with-time-on-my-hands-i-read-pt-2/feed/ 0 With time on my hands, I read. (Pt. 1) http://verywide.net/blog/2006/01/12/with-time-on-my-hands-i-read-pt-1/ http://verywide.net/blog/2006/01/12/with-time-on-my-hands-i-read-pt-1/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:00:49 +0000 Moody http://verywide.net/blog/2006/01/12/with-time-on-my-hands-i-read-pt-1/ Recently read:

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, by J.K. Rowling

The sixth installment in Rowling’s series finds Harry facing his greatest trial so far, with promises of graver difficulties to come, as he comes to face the dire nature of his (apparent) fate.

While I would not go so far as to compare Rowling’s opus to Tolkien’s [...]

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