Cameo

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/12/31/cameo/

Catching her breath with delight, she realizes that she is becoming white after Labor Day

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/12/30/catching-her-breath-with-delight-she-realizes-that-she-is-becoming-white-after-labor-day/

1922, the year of Leopold Bloom: "Shall ignorant millionaires be allowed to run amuck?"

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/12/30/1922-the-year-of-leopold-bloom-shall-ignorant-millionaires-be-allowed-to-run-amuck/

Seen, the real lights its own way into meaning

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/12/26/seen-the-real-lights-its-own-way-into-meaning/

Totemic head and Victorian maxim

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/12/22/cabochon/

Greet the dawn with a cup of ESL

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/12/21/greet-the-dawn-with-a-cup-of-esl/

To see and to breathe were different then

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/12/17/to-see-and-to-breathe-were-different-then/

Conrad, commanding

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/12/16/conrad-commanding/

Battery

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/12/15/battery/

New York, 1911: sentimental value added

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/12/13/new-york-1911-sentimental-value-added/

Light falling on face

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/12/11/light-falling-on-face/

Biology of shadow

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/12/01/biology-of-shadow/

Snowy destiny: Massachusetts, Manchuria

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/11/29/snowy-destiny-massachusetts-manchuria/

Second technical note: one more rewrite

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/11/26/second-technical-note-one-more-rewrite/

Studying over her shoulder, we learn how light is extracted

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/11/25/studying-over-her-shoulder-we-learn-how-light-is-extracted/

Somatic effect of the examined life

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/11/25/somatic-effect-of-the-examined-life/

Wonder ye then at the fiery hunt?

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/11/24/wonder-ye-then-at-the-fiery-hunt/

Photocontribution to the history of philosophy

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/11/22/photocontribution-to-the-history-of-philosophy/

It will be interesting to teach Emerson again after two years away

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/11/21/it-will-be-interesting-to-teach-emerson-again-after-two-years-away/

Scholium for Master Hobbes: the state of nature is a red state

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/11/21/scholium-for-master-hobbes-the-state-of-nature-is-a-red-state/

An observation: for some models there is no such thing as plein-air

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/11/19/an-observation-for-some-models-there-is-no-such-thing-as-plein-air/

Technical note

I have rewritten blogpost “That remains to be unseen” (November 14, 2016) and reprocessed its image. The link is

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2016/11/14/that-remains-to-be-unseen/

"We do our best to polish -- polish -- polish!"

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/11/17/we-do-our-best-to-polish-polish-polish/

Some lines by Wallace Stevens

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/11/16/some-lines-by-wallace-stevens/

We spectators

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/11/15/we-spectators/

The bishop orders his tomb

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/11/13/the-bishop-orders-his-tomb/

Watching Fox News, he is consoled for what, beyond remedy, he is

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/11/11/watching-fox-news-he-is-consoled-for-what-beyond-remedy-he-is/

"If I could write," he thinks, "I would be a psychological novelist"

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/11/10/if-i-could-write-he-thinks-i-would-be-a-psychological-novelist/

Civilization is an ill-fitting disguise

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/11/08/civilization-is-an-ill-fitting-disguise/

Transport X: le chat de Cassandre

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/11/04/transport-x-le-chat-de-cassandre/

Subtext

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/11/04/subtext/

Il n'y a pas de hors-texte

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/11/03/il-ny-a-pas-de-hors-texte/

Estampe XLIV: the break in the clouds

The pathetic fallacy explained

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/10/31/the-pathetic-fallacy-explained/

Winter light; or, Even in the rain, Hawaii might be capable of cheering up Ingmar Bergman

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/10/29/winter-light-or-even-in-the-rain-hawaii-might-be-capable-of-cheering-up-ingmar-bergman/

The historical novel has something for everybody: hats, cheekbones, Nazis, and a National Geographic breast detour through Asia

Illumination: three icons

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/10/28/illumination-three-icons/

The verb "to make music"

That I was I knew was of my body

Yellow on yellow: a corsage for Citizen Malevich

Vorticist

Possible way 14

Buchstabe: the origin of writing

Glyph

The hands of Jascha Heifetz, 1917

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/10/14/the-hands-of-jascha-heifetz-1917/

Invocation at ascent

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/10/12/invocation-at-ascent/

Bulletin: Robert Frost was a rentier

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/10/11/bulletin-robert-frost-was-a-rentier/

Under the spotlight, her preferred profile

Exiled votary of Pluto

From a time of patience, for a time of hope

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/10/05/from-a-time-of-patience-for-a-time-of-hope/

Gai voyage, Hart Crane

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/10/03/gai-voyage-hart-crane/

Compass, quadrant and sextant contrive

See there's a swan

"A gleaming shaft"

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/09/30/a-gleaming-shaft/

La dame à la licorne

Meteorology of green

How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea?

Estampe XLIII

Quantitative demo: Dickinson > Poe

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/09/22/quantitative-demo-dickinson-poe/

Let us groom your arrogant bird

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/09/20/let-us-groom-your-arrogant-bird/

Solarium: for Harry and Caresse Crosby

Focus: photographic apparatus with naval architecture and man

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/09/16/focus-photographic-apparatus-with-naval-architecture-and-man/

The shadow of a flame

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/09/13/the-shadow-of-a-flame/

I see thee better in the dark

Auberge Osiris

Correction 2: splendid isolation

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/09/10/correction-2-splendid-isolation/

Correction: Woolf's caption, my blogpost

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/09/10/correction-woolfs-caption-my-blogpost/

A double portrait of Virginia Woolf and William Butler Yeats

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/09/09/a-double-portrait-of-virginia-woolf-and-william-butler-yeats/

Mae

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/09/08/mae/

In 1905, photographers were cherubs, well paid and nude

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/09/05/in-1905-photographers-were-cherubs-well-paid-and-nude/

Mrs. Wharton takes it in

Too obvious to be interesting: decor has an ideology

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/08/30/too-obvious-to-be-interesting-decor-has-an-ideology/

Victorian portrait group

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/08/29/victorian-portrait-group/

Form in space: descending from his jeté, the bishop considers the hor d'doeuvres

Apparatus for transport to the unchanged

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/08/27/apparatus-for-transport-to-the-unchanged/

A crateload of metonyms

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/08/20/a-crateload-of-metonyms/

My apologies

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/08/19/my-apologies/

He meditates upon Rimbaud

Yeats, Minnaloushe, and the ophthalmologist in common

jonathanmorse.blog/2018/08/18/yeats-minnaloushe-and-the-ophthalmologist-in-common/

The illuminated garden of Andreas Vesalius

Of course we dream in color

So new, so new!

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/08/11/so-new-so-new/

Dime novel; or, Ancient Pistol of the CIA

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/08/10/dime-novel-or-ancient-pistol-of-the-cia/

Vote for beauty

http://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/08/09/vote-for-beauty/

"I have the means to make myself deadly"

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/08/07/i-have-the-means-to-make-myself-deadly/

From a great distance in space and in time, the Buddha contemplates the ephemeral

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/08/03/from-a-great-distance-in-space-and-in-time-the-buddha-contemplates-the-ephemeral/

Language note: ask any sophomore

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/08/01/language-note-ask-any-sophomore/

Her hat can't distract her from the tragic Darwinian grandeur of her situation

Schubertiana

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/07/24/schubertiana/

In the presence of life,

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/07/22/in-the-presence-of-life/

"Through union activities this family has developed a desire for higher education.

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/07/21/through-union-activities-this-family-has-developed-a-desire-for-higher-education/

"It's time," she thinks, "to sing our back-to-school song"

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/07/21/its-time-she-thinks-to-sing-our-back-to-school-song/

Psychiatric term "flight of ideas": internet thinking before the internet

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/07/20/psychiatric-term-flight-of-ideas-internet-thinking-before-the-internet/

Moiré Millay

The Arc of History: Zenith passage, Honolulu, July 16, 2018

From the era before the airfoil and the plural number

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/07/11/from-the-era-before-the-airfoil-and-the-plural-number/

Arbus and Sontag: for an era of cruelty, a license to stare

"One dull beastly farce": literature for the Fourth of July 2018

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/07/04/one-dull-beastly-farce-literature-for-the-fourth-of-july-2018/

Réfléchissons, Ramon Fernandez

Pausing only to change his hat, he attacks the mob of amendments and vanquishes the twenty-second

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/06/30/pausing-only-to-change-his-hat-he-attacks-the-mob-of-amendments-and-vanquishes-the-twenty-second/

Hawaii Kai: the cultural contradictions, part 2

Contemplation through the monocle

How to read satisfactorily

Interwoven, toe and heel

http://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/06/14/interwoven-toe-and-heel

Portrait: Christian Zionist

June 11, 2018: the view from the presidential library

In the cloud of vog, for a moment,

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/06/09/in-the-cloud-of-vog-for-a-moment/

Gesamtkunstwerk: in the Democratic People's Republic, the vision of Leni Riefenstahl is realized at last through the music of Lawrence Welk

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/06/03/gesamtkunstwerk-in-the-democratic-peoples-republic-the-vision-of-leni-riefenstahl-is-realized-at-last-through-the-music-of-lawrence-welk/

Theory of tragedy: the realization

Black square: Malevich and his cat take a vacation under the permanently overcast sky of Honolulu

Epicurean

Theory of orchestration: "Chariots of Fire," "Titanic," and the second triumph of the will

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/05/26/theory-of-orchestration-chariots-of-fire-titanic-and-the-second-triumph-of-the-will/

From the series "Thou waitest for the spark from heaven!"

Flower: from the era of black and white

http://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/05/23/flower-from-the-era-of-black-and-white/

Franco-Italian language note: the plural of "rigoletto"

http://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/05/20/franco-italian-language-note-the-plural-of-rigoletto/

Link to my guest post about Yeats at "Hell's Printing Press: The Blog of the Blake Archive and Blake Quarterly"

https://blog.blakearchive.org/2017/10/17/yeats

To be seen yet nevertheless to see

Hawaii volcano 2018: the black stone of Kalapana 2018

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/05/11/hawaii-volcano-2018-the-black-stone-of-kalapana-zl/

Album leaf with obligate name

https://jonathanmorse.blog/album-leaf-with-obligate-name/

Vasari

She thinks of Lieutenant Pinkerton

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/05/03/she-thinks-of-lieutenant-pinkerton/

American literature of the Great Depression

She goes crinkly with change

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/04/22/she-goes-crinkly-with-change/

Link to my Nihilsentimentalgia post "Shatter; glitter"

https://nihilsentimentalgia.com/2018/04/21/shatter-glitter-by-jonathan-morse-ten-years-of-nihilsentimentalgia/

He speaks of his beauty with Mme. Récamier

Joke*

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/03/31/joke/

Gird: architecture as an idea and a vestment

She feels her thought as immediately as the odor of a rose.

Lyric

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/03/04/note/

Zhdanov! Thou shouldst be living at this hour

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/03/03/zhdanov-thou-shouldst-be-living-at-this-hour/

Op

And the Oscar for Best Darkness goes to . . .

Theory of evening wear

Explanatory annotation

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/02/18/explanatory-annotation/

Transport IX

Curve and idea

http://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/01/28/curve-and-idea/

Contradazzle

Background: anonymous Vorticist drawing, 1916

Euphemism and its art: the word "Norway"

https://jonathanmorse.blog/2018/01/11/euphemism-and-its-art-the-word-norwegian/

Sophomore lit

My primary WordPress blog is moving

As of January 5, 2018, its address will be

https://jonathanmorse.blog/

All old posts should have transferred over.

Muse with cameo

Source: James Vaughan’s X-Ray Delta One Flickr page,
http://sloth 1880 Xq1sijb66o1_1280. Photoshopped.