mencken w/ax

Posted on Tuesday 10 January 2006 by dbv

(collage by Ray Johnson, collection of William S. Wilson)

charles montagu doughty

Posted on Monday 9 January 2006 by dbv

Here he is (in a portrait by Eric Henri Kennington) looking sad about the English language going to pot.

raymond roussel

Posted on Sunday 8 January 2006 by dbv

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(from Mark Ford’s biography)

meanders

Posted on Saturday 7 January 2006 by dbv

(from a 1944 Army Corps of Engineers report on the history of the Mississippi River, here from Cape Girardeau, Missouri to Donaldsonville, Louisiana)

john ashbery, 1962

Posted on Friday 6 January 2006 by dbv