The world encouraged me to completemy doctorate in shamelessness. “You’ll hurtto not be part of all this interfaceand commerce,” I was warned, thoughas soon as I declined I was rewardedwith a loneliness so pure that my earscould not be found by bothersome words,and my blood felt fed only by the airand the light that lives …
I’m certain that morning I heard wasps droningbeneath each floating, sunlit surface.The billowing high-peaked tents staked virgin spaceas if they were the early outposts of an empireon the rise. Here was a scene nothing in Chauceror Blake or my continental tours had prepared me for.How unlike the bored bewitchment I’d glimpsed in that pigeon-eyedChancellor of …
In memory of our contributor Naira Kuzmich, and with the permission of her family, we’d like to make her full essay from Issue 13.2 available now. (Use the arrows at the bottom of the PDF embedder to scroll through.) See more essays from Issue 13.2 by purchasing a copy in our online store. Digital copies …
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Our train broke down in the frozen heart of the taiga. At first we were startled. We had grown accustomed to the relentless presence of the engine, the way that it throbbed beneath our toes and thrummed through our veins. When we tried to rise, we stumbled and then tried again. How strange it was …
If the mind is one of those Piranesi prisons, she said, full of darkly nested architectural redundancies—as we know the human brain is, with its neurons like ropes slung precariously from cell to cell, and interrupted spiral staircases going neither up nor down, and ruined stone lions hinting at some tapestried past when all this …
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