November 28, 2000
Mina
Reading Mina Loy again. The Lost Lunar Baedeker. She had earrings made of thermometers. She once had a business making lampshades. I wish I had a Mina Loy lampshade. She is buried in Aspen, Colorado, in a Woodland Cemetery.

"Let Joy go solace-winged
To flutter whom she may concern"

"In the raw caverns of the Increate
we forge the dusk of Chaos
to that imperious jewellery of the Universe
   -- the Beautiful --

While to your eyes
   A delicate crop
of criminal mystic immortelles
stands to the censor's scythe."

i love you, english traveler mina