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Jonathan Morse
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Blogs about language and photography
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Amsterdam, 1734: the black slab descends toward the ionosphere,
Karajan’s brass and timpani prepare to sound Also sprach Zarathustra, and in volume 1 of his magnificently tinted Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio, et iconibus art…
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December 1, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Behold
In chapter 42 of Moby-Dick (“The Whiteness of the Whale”), Ishmael perceives at the heart of things a “dumb blankness, full of meaning, in a wide landscape of snows – a colorless,…
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December 1, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Waldo’s Destruction Company
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October 24, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Sensor: Shostakovich jonathanmorse.blog/2025/10/15/s... #cat #music #Shostakovich #photography
Sensor
Shostakovich:
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October 16, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Der Panther liest im Bett.
* Readers under the sign of the orange, he’s reading Rilke’s “The Panther”: a poem about light in the lightspeeding moment when it rushes nevertheless in through our cage&#8…
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October 12, 2025 at 5:03 AM
The alexandrite #cat #eye
October 6, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Pubescentrump jonathanmorse.blog/2025/10/01/s...
Shod forever in red: two modes of immortality
1. That which never can change: Its oriflamme is, “The red shoes dance on.” 2. That which refashions mother memory into statesmanship:Its talisman in words is, “Make [name of myth…
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October 2, 2025 at 3:49 AM
The 20 mm lens #cat #photography
In morning light, an American short-haired cat sits on a kitchen counter. His picture was taken with a wide-angle lens, so we see him surrounded by about half of the entire kitchen.
September 29, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Early morning: Hawaii geography memory dance dance dance jonathanmorse.blog/2025/09/10/d...
Directions at sunrise
You don’t want to know why I was waiting outside Castle Hospital’s emergency room at  six in the morning, but Uber had told me to expect a red Cadillac driven by a man named Willy. &#82…
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September 11, 2025 at 8:33 AM
A way to reconcile #MAGA and #MAHA, #Trump's power base with #RFKJr's:

First, by executive decision, order the immediate death penalty for anyone who doesn't love Trump. Second, stipulate that the execution be carried out by #COVID immunization. @carlbergstrom.com @sanders.senate.gov
August 31, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Javafinchjavafinch
Two brilliantly colored Java finches facing the camera and so close that they're touching, with one bird's head on top of the other's.
August 18, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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Iste perfecit opus
In Browning’s “Fra Lippo Lippi,” the artist who narrates the poem envisions a picture he is about to create: a painting filled to the margins with brilliantly illuminated images o…
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June 30, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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Topical but perennial as art is perennial: an anthem for Secretary Kennedy
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June 26, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Trump doesn't consult @dieworkwear.bsky.social. Instead, he meditates on how he'd look wearing a crown.
June 17, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Terms of art, 1847
Footnotes in advance: 1. “Now exhibiting” means “now being exhibited.” It’s a progressive passive construction that now survives only in a few expressions such as &#82…
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May 23, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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#cat #portrait
Apparatus in housing
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May 18, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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Sei mir gegrüßt, sei mir geküßt
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May 12, 2025 at 3:04 AM
That Noble Art jonathanmorse.blog/2025/05/09/t... #cat #architecture
That Noble Art
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May 10, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Frieze #cat #black #photography jonathanmorse.blog/2025/04/30/f...
Frieze
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May 1, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Surmount #butterfly #red #flower #insect #photography #color
April 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Her scents #blossom #photography #flower #color_photography
April 28, 2025 at 8:46 AM
#Photography and #history: add irony ad lib. jonathanmorse.blog/2025/04/20/t...
Terms of art, 1847
Footnotes in advance: 1. “Now exhibiting” means “now being exhibited.” It’s a progressive passive construction that survives now in only a few expressions such as &#82…
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April 21, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Nazi talk then, Republican talk now. @kevinmkruse.bsky.social @joriegraham.bsky.social @mollyjongfast.bsky.social #history #literature jonathanmorse.blog/2025/04/09/t...
The first time as tragedy, the second time as commercial
Dating from 1960, Vasily Grossman’s very long novel Life and Fate tried to be a War and Peace for the twentieth century. If only in terms of ambition, it failed. It has mass but not copia. It…
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April 10, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Fingerings for the well dressed #YujaWang #piano #lizard #green #photography jonathanmorse.blog/2025/03/29/f...
Fingerings for the well dressed
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March 30, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Subway, don't sleep in the, darlin' #PetulaClark #cat #portrait, #photography
A sleeping cat, full face, displayed sideways. The title refers to the Petula Clark song "Don't Sleep in the Subway, Darlin."
March 26, 2025 at 8:41 AM