i've been reading them. i have not updated my list of books here in a long time. i have not written about a book in a long time. but i have read them, 40 last year. the most interesting and exciting and new of them all were probably the ones by juan emar. i say …
I have stopped posting
it was, as most things seem to be, short lived. the truth is i got bored. there was no interaction or reaction, neither on substack nor on reddit, so although I got more views there than i ever have on a single post here, the result was much the same. void. posting a story on …
a new story
last month i was in oklahoma city and I visited the art museum there, and afterward I sat in a nearby coffee shop and wrote a story that I imagined while looking at the art exhibit. that story was recently published and you can read it here. if you haven't noticed I am very influenced …
new words – spavined
Probably the final word for this book, only 3 pages left. For this one McCarthy uses the second dictionary definition. Spavined - old and decrepit The sentence: "Dervishes of leaves rattled across the yard and in the wind the oaks dipped and creaked, and in the wind even the spavined house hung between the stone …
new words – candent
I'd guessed it was related to incandescent, and was right, but it also recalls cadent, which gives it another feel. Candent - glowing from or as if from great heat Getting near the end now, only a few pages left of The Orchard Keeper: "But that was all he heard, through the door now, running …
Jonas David 