Category Archives: Anthology

My collected writings and those of family members.

This Is Stag Country

Posted on April 20, 2018 by JMN

Spunk McGruder was Athletic Director when Don Bob Rooke quarterbacked us to Bi-District. The Stags had the Fearsome Foursome on the line: Chance Purvis, Boog Jeeters, Colt McGruder, and Skeeter Muncie. Not one of those boys went on to play … Continue reading →

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Social Math — UK

Posted on April 20, 2018 by JMN

Giles and Trevor depart the suite of rooms they share in University College at 4:03 p.m. destined for their 5-o’clock rendezvous for high tea with Felicity and Nigella 30 kilometres thence. Giles’s vintage Morgan will average 44.2 kilometres per hour … Continue reading →

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Written in the 70s — Sontag: When suffering

Posted on April 18, 2018 by JMN

Sontag: “When suffering and pleasure are experienced vicariously, people can afford to be intense.” [Porno] Excessive susceptibility to the visual; is this the most “intellectual” of the senses? Ortega: “La dirección en que el ver va diferenciándose del palpar consiste … Continue reading →

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Written in the 70s — We’ll have sex

Posted on April 18, 2018 by JMN

… We’ll have sex if you love me. Or: We’ve had sex; how can you not love me? Or: We love each other; let’s marry so we can close the deal in bed. Or: My self-respect is so down; I … Continue reading →

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Written in the 70s — Abstraction

Posted on April 18, 2018 by JMN

Abstraction: flight from interpretation: return the sensual to art (music as well). The person who violently and persistently jars his senses with drugs, sex, food, is the opposite of voluptuous; he is frigid. The capacity for sensuality is in inverse … Continue reading →

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From Memory

Posted on April 17, 2018 by JMN

“September 1, 1939,” poem by W. H. Auden, https://www.poets.org This is the longest poem I’ve memorized so far. It has nine stanzas, each of which has eleven lines. There’s a regular rhyme scheme. I detect a three-beat cadence. I read … Continue reading →

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This Is Stag Country

Posted on April 17, 2018 by JMN

Mallory and Chess Peavy had their twins, Heather and Feather, when Chess was a senior and Mallory was a sophomore. Jester and Kincaid wanted Chess to get an Associate’s in Kinesiology from Blane so he could coach at the District, … Continue reading →

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Social Math — UK

Posted on April 17, 2018 by JMN

Felicity and her friend Nigella depart Felicity’s family’s thirty-two-room summer house in order to meet Giles and Trevor for high tea at the Chancery Buttery near Vauxhall Mews. Their chauffeured Bentley will traverse the twenty-seven kilometres at an average rate … Continue reading →

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Social Math — UK

Posted on April 17, 2018 by JMN

Towne Crier Chichesterton-Upon-Hogmill URGENT BULLETIN Instances of petty theft in Chichesterton-Upon-Hogmill have been remarked upon by our readers for a second fortnight. Be so kind as to report to the Constabulary the presence of any persons of dubious aspect, howsoever … Continue reading →

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