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the archivist March 9, 2025

Good Things We’ve Seen on the Internet Lately How a Pop Band Tricked 9 Million Americans into Being Nazis Adam Tod Brown | Cracked.com Do you remember Ace of Base? I should tell you something: Ace of Base was probably a bunch of Nazis. https://www.cracked.com/blog/how-90s-pop-band-secretly-sold-nazism-to-america ———— Modern Love, Ancient War William Logan | The New […]

the archivist September 14, 2012

Ars Poetica by Archibald MacLeish A poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit, Dumb As old medallions to the thumb, Silent as the sleeve-worn stone Of casement ledges where the moss has grown— A poem should be wordless As the flight of birds. * A poem should be motionless in time As […]

the archivist August 17, 2012

Epilogue Robert Lowell Those blessèd structures, plot and rhyme— why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled? I hear the noise of my own voice: The painter’s vision is not a lens, it trembles to caress the light. But sometimes everything I write with the threadbare art […]