Greg GerkeJanet Malcolm — On a sentence from the essay “A Girl of the Zeitgeist”Janet Malcolm — a sentence from the essay “A Girl of the Zeitgeist” in the book Forty-One False StartsJul 16Jul 16
Greg GerkeOn a Passage of Paul Valéry’s “Poetry and Abstract Thought”…though made by someone other than the speaker and addressed to someone other than the listener…it is a language within a language.”Jul 51Jul 51
Greg GerkeOn a Passage from James Salter’s Light Years“He was self-indulgent, a failure. He had not abandoned failure; it was his address, his street, his one comfort. His life was one of…Jun 9Jun 9
Greg GerkeOn a Sentence in Garielle Lutz’s Backwardness“We ducked into a restroom at Burger King to kiss quickly, shiftily, before somebody barged in to take a simple, easy-hearted…Jun 1Jun 1
Greg GerkeOn a Paragraph of Merleau-Ponty’sAfter reading a large paragraph in Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s short introduction to Sense and Nonsense, I took a hampered but hopeful breath…May 14May 14
Greg GerkeOn a Sentence from Marguerite Duras’s The LoverMarguerite Duras — The Lover p.10–11Apr 24Apr 24
Greg GerkeOn a Passage from Shakespeare’s Henry IV Part 2Shakespeare — Henry IV Part 2 — Act V, scene VApr 17Apr 17
Greg GerkeOn a passage from William Hazlitt’s “On a Portrait of a Lady by Vandyke”William Hazlitt — “On a Portrait of a Lady by Vandyke”Mar 30Mar 30