EPISODE · May 31, 2018 · 9 MIN
Negative Space Squirrel
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Squirrel. Sunday, February 28, 2016. Carlyle by the railroad tracks. Hit by a car. Lying on his back. Iconic images from the Golden Age of comic books. Baby Superman leaves his collapsing planet. The distance between the tall grass and the woods, and the paved suburban street, was first mapped by Thomas Cole in 1836. The Iron Horse was once a marvel-a machine with an animal spirit. I was wrong on both accounts-it is Rachel Whiteread. The necessity of a job well done. Or done at all. Questions and exclamation points. Setting suns, great American pastimes, and a reason to carry on. The signposts remain, but the ground they were anchored in is gone, gone, gone. Left alone on the American continent. Go East, old man.
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Squirrel. Sunday, February 28, 2016. Carlyle by the railroad tracks. Hit by a car. Lying on his back. Iconic images from the Golden Age of comic books. Baby Superman leaves his collapsing planet. The distance between the tall grass and the woods, and the paved suburban street, was first mapped by Thomas Cole in 1836. The Iron Horse was once a marvel-a machine with an animal spirit. I was wrong on both accounts-it is Rachel Whiteread. The necessity of a job well done. Or done at all. Questions and exclamation points. Setting suns, great American pastimes, and a reason to carry on. The signposts remain, but the ground they were anchored in is gone, gone, gone. Left alone on the American continent. Go East, old man.
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