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Caleb Warner

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Born

Sugar Grove, Illinois, The United States

Website

https://www.allisvanitypress.com/

Genre

Fantasy, Surrealism, Fiction

Influences

Bjork, Kate Bush

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January 2014

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1.19.24 A wise man once told me that if you find yourself plagued with dark thoughts, imagine they are clowns on the side of the road asking for a ride. Let them tell you where they want to go. Try to get there. Typically clowns want to hitchhike to 123 Sweets Drive, which does not exist. Then pull out your gun.

9.17 Convictions flew through the open window of her heart like pigeons, shitting everywhere.

1.19.24 Roger Clements, father of two boys and three daughters, sat on the back porch of his Iowa farmhouse in a camp chair smoking a pipe and looking out at the rain. Little blisses rushed up his core whenever he inhaled the mixed air of cold denim, grease, and the sweet, fig biscuit tobacco. Roger was cozy—and old. His blond youth permanen 1.19.24 A wise man once told me that if you find yourself plagued with dark thoughts, imagine they are clowns on the side of the road asking for a ride. Let them tell you where they want to go. Try to get there. Typically clowns want to hitchhike to 123 Sweets Drive, which does not exist. Then pull out your gun.

9.17 Convictions flew through the open window of her heart like pigeons, shitting everywhere.

1.19.24 Roger Clements, father of two boys and three daughters, sat on the back porch of his Iowa farmhouse in a camp chair smoking a pipe and looking out at the rain. Little blisses rushed up his core whenever he inhaled the mixed air of cold denim, grease, and the sweet, fig biscuit tobacco. Roger was cozy—and old. His blond youth permanently stained his long hermetic grey beard with streaks of dirty yellow. His ancient denim jacket was tattered, blackened, foul. Worth hundreds of dollars probably. When smoking his pipe alone, the one thing Roger disliked above all else was interruption. And he’d been telling DeeDee that going on thirty years.
He could see DeeDee sitting in the white wicker loveseat of the sitting room. She attentively listened to news on the television. It had always been her favorite room, even before the television. But a couple years ago she started complaining about the window screens. They messed up her view. Broke up the scene into tiny little boxes. She said she found herself waving her head around like a crazy old bat to get a sharper image of her own property. She could no longer endure such an aggravation.
Roger had set aside money for home improvements, but DeeDee always encouraged just living with things till they broke. Not this improvement. She could not rest until those screens were taken out and replaced with double pane windows. After they sealed up the sunroom with glass, she made sure that everyone at church knew DeeDee’s sunroom was heaven on earth. Because she could see her property without having to shake her head back and forth. Utter bliss! That was about when she started to go blind.

12.21.23 ...And Eliza was the younger sister who sat there taking in the lightness of conversation between her and her mother like a thirsty fawn, waiting for the moment when Aunt Debbie would look at her after a pause with her green eyes and ask in her low, wined voice, 'And what about you, Ellie? What do you make of the world these days? And how you’ll subdue it?' The way she held the stem of a glass with her long slender fingers covered in big dull blunt dented silver rings like medieval tumors... ...more

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Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (Melville)

by Herman Melville

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Caleb said: " I've wanted to read this for years. Finally found a cheap copy. I am all about the "last works" of creative old-white-men.
Leonard Cohen, David Bowie, Nick Cave, C.S. Lewis, Prospero, Melville?
Jackson Browne will not make it on the list fwiw. note hi ...more "

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Go Down, Moses

by William Faulkner

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Speak, Memory

by Vladimir Nabokov

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