Conversations with Goethe
The English, Goethe said in parting, are the shining brown varnish on the sad chiffonier of civilization. Lieutenant Whitby blushed most noticeably.
And then:
- The Educational Experience What a wonderful time you’ll have, we told them, when the experience is over, done, completed. You will all, we...
- Jesus’ Son Everything down there but the curtain was red. it was like a movie of something that was actually happening. black...
- Brown Of course, I did spare a thought for a little boy I’d seen earlier that day. He was kneeling on...
- The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz Jachin-Boaz traded in maps. He bought and sold maps, and some, of certain kinds for special uses, he made or...
- The Bridge i reach out to the old lamp and turn the darkness on again....
- Yellow Dog And the words enveloped him like an unrecognisable fart, saying: yes, oh yes, this is you, this is you....
18. August 2008 by The Geecologist
Quoted from
Donald Barthelme originally written in
1987
Categories: Lies
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Tags: chiffonier, civilization, conversations with goethe, donald barthelme, forty stories, goethe, the english
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