On the visual in the verbal, the timeless in the temporal.
John Keats
Shelby Foote’s Keats
In the first chapter of his novel Shiloh, Shelby Foote has Lieutenant Palmer Metcalfe of New Orleans say the following about his thoughts while falling asleep on the eve of battle: I had thought I wouldnt sleep. It seemed I ought to make some sort of reckoning, to...
Names Writ in Water: An Addendum
More on “writing in water.”