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“Corps social Corps dansant”, Pauline Tremblay. Photo © Mireille Huguet Introduction Some years ago, I was in the habit of going to weekly public presentations on psychoanalysis. I would lose myself an hour or two in the rococo webs of a presenter’s case study, which they would lard with literary logics backed by vocal dramatics….
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Musings | JayM
Trace roses, stars of movement and magic precincts, Pick a flower, Behold! It is a smile of inexhaustable lightness, Alive in a life of bliss within. Simplicity! Time frozen in cascading delight, Senses awake, soaring on a higher plane. A sibilance of silk. Tranquility! Calm the rush, To percieve the miracle of transformation in the…
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God [by Jonathan Edwards]
God holds you over the pit of hell, as one holds a loathsome insect over the fire; the last of the just rings the bell; “I tell lies,” said the liar, a convict released because the question lacked an answer. He did calisthenics after reveille. She said she had cancer, but the beast was more…
Gratuity | Carolyn Martin
The cabby’s black eyes bounce between the car-clogged street and his rearview. My family? In Palestine? Are they all right? Chopped to bits, my question hangs between his swaying beads and me. See what I have seen, his eyes grip mine. Grandfather – in his hut. My father – in our yard. An uncle –…