April Showers

April 2, 2023

Dylan is the New Dante

“More than anything, Dylan and Dante share an unbroken sense of pity for the ‘ill-begotten souls’ of hell. Both in the position of outsiders looking-in, this subversion of time, space, and reality is what makes hell so mystical, and this carnival of characters is what makes hell so unsettling.”

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April Showers: Full Design

This week, the Nass hassles its way into a Miami club, where the room smells like gasoline and the music sounds like Dante.

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The Personal Politics of the Draft: Nass Recommends Toni Morrison: Sites of Memory

What we can learn from a literary giant’s process of creation.

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On Memories, the Olfactory, and Untimely Death

Minutes before death, a writer reflects upon his life in smells.

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My Clouds

A writer finds comfort in movement.

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wearing weighted blankets

first semester, i read and wrote and p-setted, claimed dual residency in forbes and ncw so i could eat until my mouth and stomach begged “no more,” got home everyday to lovely humans who never fail to make me laugh … Read More

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things i could remember

blue cheese root beer jukeboxes servals william howard taft blue footed boobies whale sharks hash slinging slasher triple trapeze john wayne gacy the movie baby geniuses 2015 four loko gold crossfit delta 8 ipod nano (on which I once watched … Read More

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Bob Dylan

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Verbatim

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Overheard during early, unplanned drinking

Friend 1: Is it good?

Friend 2: It's really good.

Friend 1: Really Good?

Friend 2: Yes. Yes yes. Yes!

Friend 1: You're buzzed.

Friend 2: No, I'm BASED

Overheard during spring break debrief

Proud roommate: I drank, gambled, and smoked my way through four Eastern European countries.

Overheard in front of the Office of Religious Life

Prospective father: "If someone presented me with a baby right now, I would eat it."

Overheard in Bridges lab

Self-described “rescue person” in a ponytail and a cape: “Call me Robin Hood, the way I steal from the Whit and give to the Forbes!”

Overheard on Prospect

Cooked sophomore: "I'm sorry I’m into tall, presidential women."

Overheard while discussing a spoiled book character

Professor: It's giving silver spoon.

Overheard walking to class

Proselytizing man: Do you understand the legal implications of why Jesus had to die?

Overheard in Addy Coffee Club

Ivy Member: I *am* against abuse.

Overhead in the NCW dining hall

Intellectual international student: America tastes fake. I say it in all honesty.

Overheard on bus to Princeton

Rural chauvinist: Oh, you go to Princeton? Name three white alcoholics in Cap & Gown.

Overheard in Roma

Girl wearing a big gold cross: “Big news. I’m dating the French guy in my class.”

Friend: “The annoying one?”

Girl: “No, the other one. We talked so much about the Bible.”

Overheard in East Pyne

Professor of Music: The amount of musicians that came out of law school…it's the greatest conservatory!

Overheard in NCW

Pensive German Major, on Twitter nemesis: I wonder if I could get her kicked out of Stanford

Overheard outside Patton Hall

Recently handsome man: Everyone keeps telling me that my haircut looks nice, but I didn’t get a haircut…

Real friend: …

Recently handsome man: It’s just growing out.

Real friend: Oh, so they just haven’t seen you in a while.

Recently handsome man: Yeah, and I guess they didn’t like my haircut before.