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The Meaning of Plato
Sometimes eternity reaches down its pointer finger and scoots us in the right direction.
Apr 11
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Donald Antenen
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March 2024
It is not so much Hysterical Realism as it is Hysterical Hysteria
Or, long forgotten drafts from the prehistory of the Borges Review of Books
Mar 27
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Donald Antenen
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February 2024
The Maid and the Castle
Ocean liner staffs in the 1960s were the most concentrated and serious population of poets in the world.
Feb 15
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Donald Antenen
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Margaret Valéry, Ethnologist
Her passion for ethnology didn’t sway her father, who refused to let her travel to north Ciscaucasia, so she waited and read and dreamt of walking…
Feb 10
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Donald Antenen
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January 2024
Three Sisters: a Kijk Folktale
Kijk elders have a story about the Dolmens of Ciscaucasia. Tevfik Esenç told it to me one morning as we walked through Gaziosmanpaşa in search of what…
Jan 11
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Donald Antenen
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December 2023
Gerald Murnane's Christmas Card
Murnane is with Henry James in the small class of writers whom I have never read because the idea of them is too wonderful to sully by reading.
Dec 24, 2023
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Donald Antenen
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November 2023
Concerning Our Patron, Sir Peter Blanchel Dalyrist
We begin our acquaintance Sir Peter Blanchel Dalyrist at the start of the Slow Desertification and the end of his marriage to Pilve Jõeäär.
Nov 12, 2023
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Donald Antenen
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July 2023
On the Composition of Principia Mathematica
They came to the supper table after a fruitless afternoon to find there Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan, deceased 212 years previous but sitting…
Jul 8, 2023
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Donald Antenen
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June 2023
The End of Chance
Swordless and without a living adversary, I imagine Cirzpisława’s students saying in their best imitation of the master, “Untrue? Perrrrhaps. Not a…
Jun 23, 2023
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Donald Antenen
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May 2023
Egel Stutt's Solitary Painting
“I should have been a reindeer herder like my grandfather, a real man!”
May 29, 2023
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Donald Antenen
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Concerning the Missing Footnotes in "Take It on the Run"
YOUR HUMBLE SERVANT IN ETERNAL EMNITY, BENITO CERENO
May 10, 2023
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Donald Antenen
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Take It On the Run
It takes three bites for the roach giant to eat a single child of rock ‘n’ roll.
May 10, 2023
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Donald Antenen
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