Week 46-22 - Curiosities

Monoprint Collage - Too much fun

ESSAY


"Total Eclipse" by Annie Dillard
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/annie-dillards-total-eclipse/536148/
"Some tasteless fate presses it upon you; it becomes part of the complex interior junk you carry with you wherever you go."


"The Fourth State of Matter" by Jo Ann Beard
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1996/06/24/the-fourth-state-of-matter
A gutting story of Jo Ann Beard at the end of her 1st stage of life.

Poetry


"Awaking in New York" by Maya Angelou
https://www.bustle.com/articles/155681-9-poems-about-new-york-city
Curtains forcing their will
against the wind,
children sleep,
exchanging dreams with
seraphim. The city
drags itself awake on
subway straps; and
I, an alarm, awake as a
rumor of war,
lie stretching into dawn,
unasked and unheeded.


"Quatrain of the Body's Sleep" by Annie Dillard
I lure sleep. I bait sleep in with my white throat.
I pretend to be asleep. Then everything happens at once.
Sleep wraps me round in his dim coat;
I weep; you leap from your corner and dance.

Song

"Brooklyn" by Woodkid
https://www.youtube.com/2YGEZbcJ9pI

"Puking our deep fried Oreos in Astroland... Brooklyn is a place stuck in my head Here in Paris, the rain is falling My heart belongs to Brooklyn"


"Annie Dillard" by Locomotive Ghost
https://www.youtube.com/OubzXGNnt3E


"Dogs" by Pink Floyd
https://www.youtube.com/4QA30qkRYy8


Short Story


"The Door in the Wall" by H.G. Wells
https://www.classicshorts.com/stories/tditw.html


"The Chase" by Annie Dillard
https://www.mpsaz.org/rmhs/staff/dmsokol/101/assigned-readings/files/annie_dillard_the_chase2.pdf
A chase through Pittsburgh after a successful snowball hit on a Buick.

Art

Rithika Merchant (India)
Painter

http://www.rithikamerchant.com/
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/11/rithika-merchant-mixed-media-works/

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