the game of love [narrative]
By Christina Li | October 7They say all is fair in love and war. Except when the war is between you, a yellow ball, and the grown man chasing said ball around a court approximately 200 miles away.
They say all is fair in love and war. Except when the war is between you, a yellow ball, and the grown man chasing said ball around a court approximately 200 miles away.
Wed, Aug 20 at 9:17 PM
Under the moon, I do not sleep. I gnaw at my fingernails. I fix my sights on an indifferent body. I invent words for myself that will never leave these walls. I recite them, letting each syllable linger a second longer than necessary. I put ink to paper, which is to say I dream with my eyes wide open. ...
The scene is Paris, 1912. Following an excursion to Amsterdam for a personal exhibition, artist Henri Le Fauconnier returns to his home galleries. He is among his fellow Salon Cubists again, the spearheaders and rulers of the burgeoning movement that has taken over the public Parisian salons—mainly ...