Fainting with interest, I hungered back

Three Things
1 ● “Dream Song 4” by John Berryman
2 ● Slim Aarons lets beauty stand on its own two feet
3 ● Pangram Pangram will improve your life

1 ● ”Dream Song 4” by John Berryman

Filling her compact & delicious body
with chicken páprika, she glanced at me
twice.
Fainting with interest, I hungered back
and only the fact of her husband & four other people
kept me from springing on her

or falling at her little feet and crying
'You are the hottest one for years of night
Henry's dazed eyes
have enjoyed, Brilliance.' I advanced upon
(despairing) my spumoni.—Sir Bones: is stuffed,
de world, wif feeding girls.

—Black hair, complexion Latin, jewelled eyes
downcast . . . The slob beside her feasts . . . What wonders is
she sitting on, over there?
The restaurant buzzes. She might as well be on Mars.
Where did it all go wrong? There ought to be a law against Henry.
—Mr. Bones: there is.

2 ● Slim Aarons lets beauty stand on its own two feet

We love the photography of the late Slim Aarons. Chic summers in Palm Springs, Mediterranean paradises. He didn’t use set designers, makeup, or any of that. He attributes his success to “photographing attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places.” Yes. Let beauty stand on its own two feet.

3 ● Pangram Pangram will improve your life

Of all the areas of aesthetics trampled down by mass production, typography suffers the most. Our computers ship with more fonts than anyone could ever use. Only a lunatic would attempt to pay the rent by crafting fonts in 2024.

But then you see Pangram Pangram’s work. Like all good art, it’s a pleasure that redeems.

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See you next week.

—Editor