ISSUE 19 | AUG 2012
DROUGHT
Alexander Krasna
The Tiny Universe of Lydia Davis
a cat flap perhaps, or a coin slot - the poor fools had imagined - Davis’s little exercise - a softly slurred grammar - evidence of tears, likely from anguish - « the name of what she was »
Casey Lange
Careful
a friend who lives far away - narcissistic nature - well and happy - care about and care for - dilution and hollowness - good reason for caution - « one learns something else » - your ear or your presence or your voice
Bradley Young
Community Is Resistance
with the wind came the fire - the most suicidal cities in America - intrepid souls willing to defy the orders of authorities - an excess of giving - « normal life » that is stagnant - the dinner table
Sarah Mendelsohn
Nailed at the Door
sharing is a privilege - Jesus in the desert - anxiety and inspiration - anyone can linger - the modesty of doing chores - to share enough - « work done in factories, with machines and hands » - « depressed, depleted mirrors » - a grungy, dirty barrier - Gandhi and his wife - right next to a lake
Avi Garelick
No Rain Comes From Heaven
« the whole world » - rainfall is about lifestyle - spiritual inflation - why is God doing this to us? - theological victim-blaming - « Hydrological drought always has a social history » - the writers of ritual - to refuse food when the Lord does not feed you
Michael Kinnucan
Disagreement and Dialectic
the need for philosophy - obscurely motivated producers of contradiction - the dream of metaphysics - what is merely « ours » - watches and waits - the unhappy lover of truth - knowledges must challenge themselves - like a waste of time, like an unaccountable stupidity
David Richter
Afterthought on “The Empty Subject and the Art of Ethics”
Michael Kinnucan
Afterthought on “Untimely Translations”