Off-Modern Onions
Off-Modern Onions
plainreading
Your basic frustrated writer who hasn’t yet figured out where she falls on the spectrum between poetry and academia. Host of the reading-focused podcast Plain Reading. Gradually finding my groove with Mastodon.
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J.-B. Madou, Le bon conseil (Good Advice), 1871. Public domain image courtesy loki 11 and Wikimedia Commons. If the title of a book a friend recently gave me was intended to be provocative, that intention surely succeeded for yours...
Co. Dublin, 1954. Courtesy National Library of Ireland on The Commons. Image with no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons. Marcel Bénabou tells us about the way his younger self pondered writing a grand epic which, centered upon his...
Colorado State University Libraries. Public domain image via Wikimedia Commons. I’ve written before about what I’ll call my ambivalence about genealogical research—or rather, how it often gets presented in the US American context, as a...
Gigi Ibrahim, Consumerism. CC BY 2.0 image via Wikimedia Commons. In lieu of a real post this week, I’ll offer highlights from the past few days, which has involved attempting to keep up with class assignments while embarking on a...
John Boyd, Argonauts Rowing Club Junior eight-man boat ca. 1925. Public domain image via Wikimedia Commons. When back in the fifties, Louse Bogan “asked a group of students, recently, to name some definite bodily rhythm which might...
T. S. Eliot expounds; Lord David Cecil wears a poker face. Public domain photograph taken by Lady Ottoline Morrell via Wikimedia Commons. Maybe it’s inevitable, when you read a lot of poetry criticism, to come across discussions of T. S....
Harald Slott-Møller, Spring. Public domain image via Wikimedia Commons. Well, it’s spring break, and none too soon—because friends, I am exhausted. Attempting to keep afloat in an increasingly difficult class filled with boisterous...
T. W. Rolleston, 1910. Image with no known restrictions via Internet Archive Book Images and Wikimedia Commons. I can’t remember what I was reading recently that referred to Alfred Watkins, the British photographer and amateur...
Ángel Zárraga, The Poet, 1917. Public domain image via Wikimedia Commons. I’ve begun to suspect that I enjoy reading talk about poetry more than I enjoy reading poetry itself. For one thing, the latter takes the pressure off my having to...
Camille Pisarro, L'Île La Croix, Rouen, 1888. Public domain image via Wikimedia Commons. Here’s something I don’t know how to work out: maintaining reverence for the planet and its forms and creatures without falling into schlock. And...
Closcope, Pandrosion the Mathematician. CC BY-SA 4.0 image via Wikimedia Commons. There’s to be no real discussion of weighty matters in this post. Rather, what follows is a simple, and probably too-personal-for-mass-interest,...
Dietmar Rabich, Dülmen, Kirchspiel, ehem. Sondermunitionslager Visbeck, Laufgang—2023—6796 (bw). CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons. I don’t really have much of a post today; I’ve been trying to think my way through Jacques Lacan’s...
Meteorologist John Aitken maybe looking resigned at the thought of having to read dry research. Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Well, friends, this weekend’s homework—which I’ll have to get back to after tapping out this...
Ernst Halberstadt, Obsolescence in the Junkyard, 1973. Public domain image via National Archives and Records Administration and Wikimedia Commons. My meditation this week will be brief, since class has begun and I’ve found myself thrown...
Jean Veber, Ulysses and Nausicaa, 1888. Public domain image via Wikimedia Commons. A friend and I were talking the other day about just how ugly so many US American cities are, their unwalkable sprawl out from an often cohesive core into...