material and canonical manifestations

"Material and Canonical Manifestations," December 11, 2022 (#345)

title from "Two Ships" by T.C. Boyle (1985)

Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan (2017)

Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos (1925)


Material and Canonical Manifestations

Their shop was pleasant to eat in, clean and brightly lit by a

black shiny cab driven by two black shinyrumped horses

tiptoeing into dire, thrilling scenarios. Suppose her father

explained when he went back to the bar to take his drink

nothing could go wrong while the doctor was present

side by side on the edge of the bed. Through the stuffy

presence of an old salt aboard the Elizabeth Seaman

the dancefloor full of jogging couples rolls like the

fractured intimation of the ugliness that would have

walked off greatly sobered in opposite directions.

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