my new steed

my generation

sonati

Iranian classical music (Sonati)

Iranian Radio
Radio Darvish

bougonia

"birth from a steer"

"The process... for re-creating the hive of bees in case the original bees die. A two year-old steer is brought to a specially constructed hut that has windows facing in all four directions. The animal is then beaten to death and the remains left in place through the spring. Suddenly, in the rotting flesh a whole cluster of bees is born."
lore of old, from introduction to the Fagles translation of Virgil's Aeneid

real time.

I read excerps of Song of Elias to a classroom on Saturday, and spoke of the following:
: "The dream of the novel is the absolute defeat of Real Time."
: The physics of storytelling. Physics, not psychics.
: Writing as architecture, like the construction of a cathedral. Built from stone, it rages toward the heavens.