Young man of Malibu

A good spot for him. Someone translated

in black chalk in Rome in the early 17th

Century, brought to a promontory off Sun-

set Boulevard in the later 20th, survey-

ing the beaches of Malibu. How well he

does travel, beyond the most glittering

apartments in the city of art. Nice work.

Giovanni Franceso Barbieri

  "Il Guercino"

Studies for a seated

  young man

1619

J. Paul Getty Museum

Origins of Wednesday lxxxix: A waning ecstasy?

  Students of this American President's

  orgasmic style of governance have of-

  ten wondered if the new default posi-

  tion of their jaw is disbelief's drop

  or delight's exhalation. Bizarre, the

  resemblance which is forged between a

  disciple and a dissident, these days;

  and yet how threatening now, to their

  common confusion, the looming inquiry

  is, to persisting in dissipation. Can

  it be, passivity's train has left the

  station, or is everyone still aboard? 

Michael Knapstein

Fence

undated