From the 11/4/24 edition of The New Yorker

Yukio Mishima

From "The Big Deal" by Nicholas Lemann: "The Biden Admnistration passed...the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act ($1.2 trillion), the CHIPS and Science Act ($280 billion), and the Inflation Reduction Act."

On the page opposite, from the poem "Pregnant on Street-Cleaning Day" by Laura Kolbe:

"I see myself in those forgotten unbeloved/presidents of the nineteenth century/gaunt even when they were fat--"

"From the Wilderness" (1966) by Yuko Mishima:

"I'm speaking of the vast wilderness surrounding the metropolis of my being. Unmistakably, it's a part of me, but it is an unexplored, barren area that doesn't appear on my map. I is a region of desolation as far as the eye can see, no verdant trees or flowering plants, only a biting wind that dusts the surface of jutting rocks with sand and then blows it away. though I know the location of this wilderness, I've managed to stay far away, still, I know somehow that I was there once and that someday I will have to make the journey again."

read "An Incident of Defenestration" by Francis Levy, Vol. 1 Brooklyn

and listen to "The Tears of a Clown" by Smokey Robinson