“I Lost My One True Love”— Bob Dylan Riff (1966)
Bob Dylan gets extra-rambly in a 1966 interview with Playboy. I like to read the following riff as a surreal story-poem. If you want more context, the interviewer asks Dylan as a preamble to the...
View Article“Hot Springs”— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hot Springs: In a Spring vacation hotel the rain is bad news indeed. The hundred French windows of the great galleries led the eye out to ink-and-water pines snivelling listlessly on to raw brown...
View Article“True Love”— Thomas Bernhard
True Love An Italian who owns a villa in Riva on Lake Garda and can live very comfortably on the interest from the estate his father left him has, according to a report in La Stampa, been living for...
View Article“The Flash”— Italo Calvino
The Flash It happened one day, at a crossroads, in the middle of a crowd, people coming and going. I stopped, blinked: suddently I understood nothing. Nothing, nothing about anything: I did not...
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