Tina K.
@TheEsteemedFox
Freelance editor, artsy fartsy. Published in Newsweek (they stole my tweet). "I am free, the enemy of organized, clothed society" -Álvaro de Campos
I watched an eccentric old man during lane swim at the pool with a giant green snorkel attached to his head, and as he slowly surfaced I told him he looked like a sea creature, and when he took the snorkel off to respond he was the spitting image of Harold Bloom
An adorable pair of baby skunks with identical markings have become regulars in the backyard. I'm used to seeing adult fatties waddling around so it's funny to see such agile juveniles with those comically short legs and barrel bodies
Resources in my neighbourhood are so abundant that the skunks waddle around like fat little millionaires in tuxedos
In undergrad I worked with an engineering student who couldn't get higher than a C in English. He took the class cuz he thought it would be an easy A but he said he just didn't understand what was wanted from him in essays, he couldn't wrap his head around crafting an argument
You will never hear a Math major say "My English and History classes are too difficult"
Primo Levi on the mindboggling sci-fi-ness of insects From his essays Other People's Trades
This picture is in a dollhouse. A dear family friend (Dolores “Teedy” Lee) who died recently had been working on it for decades. She was an expert woodworker and passionate about antiques. Take a little tour!
My mom died two years ago and her absence has taught me a terrible lesson, which is that if you don't get cracking and follow through on all the creative things you want to do then the people you want to share your success with the most won't be around to enjoy it with you
A sweet memoir where Hemingway remembers Paris with his first wife "in the early days when we were very poor and very happy"; goodheartedly appraises F. Scott Fitzgerald's wiener to boost the man's confidence; and trusts his cat to babysit his baby whenever he goes out
I love this account, it's a contemporary artist who draws her beloved tabby — obviously her muse — over and over again in the traditional Japanese style
ねこです。 年に一度の健康診断にいきました。結果も良くてよかったです がんばって病院にいったから、あとでごほうびをもらいます
I always thought the term 'pidgin' was pejorative, and I just learned that pidgin comes from the Chinese pei tsin — "paying money" — referring to conducting business, since Pidgin English emerged as a trade language. It continues to floor me that language is history behind a veil
I love that the epigraph to Hemingway's A Moveable Feast is by... Hemingway. I also love the opening sentence, as if we just sat down and he'd started the story without us. Powerful moves, very admirable
I made salted caramel for a cheesecake and every single time I stand at the stove and watch the sugar boil down into a thick, volcanic, bubbly syrup I think of how convicts mix boiling water and sugar in prison in splash it in people's faces to fuck them up
crazy that people have been going hehe haha for at least like a thousand years
Imagine reading Aristotle's commentary on the Iliad.
Alexander was by nature a lover of literature and learning. He considered the Iliad a treasure of martial virtue; he had received it from Aristotle, who had edited it with explanations. He always kept it, along with his dagger, under his pillow. -Plutarch, Alexander [8.2]
I meant to borrow Trilling but accidentally grabbed Erskine instead b/c who knew there were two different books of literary criticism called The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent?? Turns out Trilling was Erskine's student, but still, why you gotta play me like that you knaves
