[1] Absurdity

On a bookstore’s flashy electronic display, names of people born this day, and falling in the following categories: industrialists, sitcom actors, movie stars, pop queens, and fashion models. If you could notice who were not covered – writers, poets, philosophers - those animate ghosts of bookstores –you perhaps have seen the absurdity, moving like a blood clot, to the heart of United States of America

[2] Random lines, understood and not understood, from here and there

Peregrina paloma imaginara Que enardeces los ultimos amores Alma de lut, de musica y de flores Peregrina paloma imaginara – Ricardo Jaimes Freire, a Bolivian poet

Bad is Bach! – Slogan on a t-shirt

Glittergates of elfinbone – James Joyce

[3] Approximately two visual thoughts

An fundamental visual pattern – echoing Borges’s twelve patterns of metaphor in poetry – is the gesture of a woman’s hand playing with her hair, perhaps placing it behind her ear, perhaps letting it fall across her face. Even though he has seen this before, he always experiences a sharp aesthetic pleasure in observing this gesture.

An artist facing a blank sheet of paper with paints and brushes perhaps finds it a little easier to capture a face, with all it planes, angles and curves, that someone facing the same sheet with words.

On seeing a woman’s red hanging earrings, I also see my sister’s first set of earrings, also red and hanging, after her ears were punched some twenty years ago.