As Ever
J.E. McBrideA desultory review of art, culture, and ideas from your favorite ornamental hermit.
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Keeping Watch
…for what can the one do who comes after the king?
Only what has already been done.
—Ecclesiastes 2:12
Around 4 o’clock, reading by candlelight,
Unable again to sleep. Listening to the wind in the pines.
Through the open window...
Napoleon Crosses the Alps
Detail of Josephine and the Fortune-Teller, David Wilkie (1837)
Only a year before she had been in prison, daily watching her friends go to their deaths and momentarily expecting the same fate. Now free, and alone, she made her way, like t...
Theban Love Song
The heat is really nothing, you say consolingly.
I disagree. The heat is everything to me.
Heat alone is what gives the night
The fragrance that suffuses it with light,
And by day gives pleasure to the darkness
Of my veil. Let them...
Iconography
O Ocean—icon of You
Ineffable but irrefutable encounter,
Intimate, incomprehensible,
Voice from before our childhood,
Warm wind in the enchanted wood.
Voice we know better than any other,
Ringing all around us and yet we turn...
Notes on Lynch
After David Lynch died in January 2025, the encomiums poured in, as they always do. Mine was among them. For one observer, this bandwagon was unbearable. Critic Peter Tonguette seized the moment to try to take the iconic figure down a peg....
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Writer, painter. Seeking the good light.
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