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Idle thought
‘Thirty-Two Variations on Mambo Italiano, in the style of Johann Pachelbel.’ Should be the hit of 2008….
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Ecstatic
As George says in Sunday in the Park with George – simply but with feeling, when he turns away from his painting, after a huge burst of climactic music dies away – “It’s going well.” I’m writing this article, having finished several insistent chunks of administration; it won’t be done tonight or tomorrow morning, but…
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Changeable
Up in the night (you know why) and saw the sky – very strange: the clouds like a dark orange against a dark dark gray, moving very fast, chased by the winds off the north sea. Looks almost like a weird negative. 5 am – well the weather shifting with spring, the days getting (too…
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In Bel Air
Chic beauties, men in tuxesrun across the wet plazato the hospital entrance. I twist sprung cords to turn the blinds, trying to see. Perfect curves on rainswept autos. Big smiles, fine suits, fabrics night-blue, glassy. My vision’s left is carved inward by my arm, skin dim with shadows. Laughing, waving to friends who lean out…
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Train III: Impacts
Still on that train, but now in the other direction. Last night, in a small movie theater on the Dartington College of the Arts campus, I saw Pan’s Labyrinth. Well, I practically had to see it – arriving one late and rainy evening, in a countryside school of the arts, with nothing else to do;…
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Paul Attinello 