Sarah Belfort

A little side project. Does what it says on the box.

Please line the pockets with chamois-leather
Favorisca foderare le tasche con pelle scamosciata

Would you like to see a good animal film in slow motion?
La piacerebbe vedere al rallentatore un bel film sugli animali?

Can you recommend someone who teaches Swedish gymnastics?
Mi puó suggerire il nome di qualcuno che insegni ginastica svedese?

I want an edition of The Divine Comedy in three books
Desidero un’edizione della Divina commedia in tre volumi

Reading Martin Gardner’s annotated Alice in Wonderland and enjoying the candidness of his notes:

“A recent echo is heard in Jack Kerouac’s forgettable novel, On The Road.”

Broom People - The Mountain Goats

“The sexual tension between characters in your average Mountain Goats song could split the atom if the power could be harnessed, but it can’t, so forget it.”

(Alternate songs: Orange Ball of Hate, Dilaudid, Moon Over Goldsboro)

New mantra to recite when things go wrong: I am posing with a walrus in a natural history museum, I am posing with a walrus in a natural history museum, I am posing with a walrus in a natural history museum.

Still ambivalent about the springbok pelt. Feels like I’m adding insult to injury by having it on the floor (I step over/around it when I get out of bed.) Maybe it would be better suited as a wall decoration, with an epitaph tacked next to it.

Pride of my mantelpiece: foot-shaped candle holder

Aeschylus

Portrait of Ernest Hemingway by Waldo Peirce, 1929

See also: a bare chested Hemingway in front of the painting in 1953

— From the JFK Library and Museum