Jacob Lawrence, The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture No. 6.
The birth of Toussaint L'Ouverture, May 20, 1743. Both of Toussaint's parents were slaves. (1938)
Workbook: May, 2024
May 31, 2024 : Soccer balls in the riverbed.
May 30, 2024 : Bodies buried at sea.
May 29, 2024 : She loved walnuts.
May 28, 2024 : That cringeworthy phrase — "muscular adonis" — has echoed inside my skull for 45 years.
May 27, 2024 : "muscular adonis", began the featured poem in the University's annual literary revue.
May 26, 2024 : Where the locket — her child at six — becomes the technology of infantilization.
May 25, 2024 : "Infantilized", there's the word.
May 24, 2024 : I want to live in Giles' library.
May 23, 2024 : First register:
May 22, 2024 : Although Buffy's tonal in-betweenness is celebrated as "genre-blending"...
May 21, 2024 : Face of the menacing other.
May 20, 2024 : Brian Thompson: vampire, Klingon, shapeshifting alien bounty hunter.
May 19, 2024 : Mom, age 30: "I don't understand how they can do that!"
May 18, 2024 : That blue lives in a specific place.
May 17, 2024 : F3 and tripod at dusk.
May 16, 2024 : She's like The Ideas Guy I know from the socialist left:
May 15, 2024 : Because Monopoly is almost entirely about first builder advantage...
May 14, 2024 : Rock and Roll is...
May 13, 2024 : Friendly Alma, Texas death-row guard.
May 12, 2024 : Teenies on their phones.
May 11, 2024 : "God those phone calls..."
May 10, 2024 : Snakeskin boots on a polished table.
May 9, 2024 : "We don't have to deliver our results in writing. It's enough to talk about them."
May 8, 2024 : "I've been doing this forty years, and I have you on tape."
May 7, 2024 : Panting happily, sweat dripping, warmth from the bones flowing.
May 6, 2024 : Babies chasing sparrows.
May 5, 2024 : Soccer dude, the goalkeeper...
May 4, 2024 : Angry.
May 3, 2024 : It's uphill.
May 2, 2024 : This could be the day he goes outside.
May 1, 2024 : I know there's an answer
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