material and canonical manifestations
"Material and Canonical Manifestations," December 11, 2022 (#345)
title from "Two Ships" by T.C. Boyle (1985)
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan (2017)
Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos (1925)
Material and Canonical Manifestations
Their shop was pleasant to eat in, clean and brightly lit by a
black shiny cab driven by two black shinyrumped horses
tiptoeing into dire, thrilling scenarios. Suppose her father
explained when he went back to the bar to take his drink
nothing could go wrong while the doctor was present
side by side on the edge of the bed. Through the stuffy
presence of an old salt aboard the Elizabeth Seaman
the dancefloor full of jogging couples rolls like the
fractured intimation of the ugliness that would have
walked off greatly sobered in opposite directions.
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