an amazing blazer

"An Amazing Blazer," April 20, 2022 (#110)

title from sister-in-law

Budding Prospects by T.C. Boyle (1984)

Changing Places by David Lodge (1975)

Changing My Mind by Zadie Smith (2009)

The Complete Book of Herbs: A Practical Guide to Growing and Using Herbs by Lesley Bremness (1988)

An Amazing Blazer

Refilling his cup while he stared morosely into the knot of his hands

would have been some assurance that I was alive and kicking

emotional symbols. It forces us to recognize space as a nonneutral thing--

an open site with fertile, well-drained soil, where the tree will be

four and a half feet tall, and there was something seriously wrong with

a paper with some formula like, 'I want to raise some questions about

an imagined reconstruction of a program of assassination that

the lovage leaves as close to the small groups of leaves as possible,'

swallowed up in the rattle of insects and the harsh glottal complaint of

I think I need a change. A new perspective. The challenge of a

kind of stasis. A moment in which nothing happened, and keeps not

the innovative use of preservatives and mass production created

as a beleaguered and vastly outnumbered army waits for

distant kinship with that coarse, uneven, priapic imagination,

the coarse, the blind, the stupid. As effective as these

means of propagation: cuttings, dividing and layering.

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The Jungle Book (1967)

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