Fantastick Silhouettes (August)

Let's appreciate the cucurbit

This week begins a new series where I take passages from Fantasticks by Nicholas Breton and use them as material for my own short lyrical essays. Breton’s 1626 book was an inspiration for me starting this newsletter, as was Pierre Senges’ book Studies of Silhouettes, in which that author takes a similar approach, using the notebooks of Franz Kafka as ma…