music clip of the day

summer in the city

Moses Sumney, “Plastic,” live, Chicago (Pitchfork Music Festival), 7/15/16

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reading table: two takes

Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

—Henry James (1843-1916)

There is a kind of sullenness that summer / alone possesses.

—Geoffrey Hill (1932-2016), “In Isley Church Lane (3)”