The construction of the flying sauc...

The construction of the flying saucer is not thus much a dilemma of hardware as it is a poetic challenge.

Terence McKenna, History [i]finale[/i]s in Green

Doesn't Gabrielle's being made the tool of her mother's put to death convince you of the necessity--at least the poetic necessity--of the curse?

Dashiell Hammett, The Dain doom

This conversation took place athwart a period of four month via electronic mail. The centerpiece of the conversation is Field's late book, Point and Line (New Directions, 2000) yet hovering around the affair were side conversations--about Freud, Tibetan