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On the second day of Christmas…
December 26, 1995 – San Francisco This evening something rather unexpected happened… I had been exchanging gifts at the largest department store in San Francisco (you’d think Lars would know that I wear a medium shirt by now), and dragged home, fairly tired, on the subway. My regular train didn’t come, so I took one…
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Snowstorms
Not real ones. It is colder, and there will be snow, but we haven’t seen any yet. But I kept thinking of one of Peter Altenberg’s postcard poems, the one sung in the first of Berg’s wonderful but rarely performed Altenberg-Lieder: Seele, wie bist du schöner, tiefer, nach Schneestürmen.Auch du hast sie, gleich der Natur.Und…
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MacNew
Sunny, fresh, active, much going on in what feels like a fast lane. How is it possible to experience renewal and excitement and freshness in January?… ah well, stranger things have happened, I suppose. I have a new office computer, one of the new iMacs – Intel chip, utterly immense screen, high-resolution, stylish, and fast…
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In the quiet night
Morning: green tea, hot chocolate; a strong English breakfast at a nearby café (I didn’t eat the blood pudding though, it just seemed… optional). By which time I was oddly shaky: so much caffeine and sugar and strong food, and my body was getting a bit overwhelmed… so some afternoon sleep. And tonight: again, a…
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Ideal
The truth is, for all my complaining, I have an ideal situation here. The big middle room, all the walls covered with useful and intelligent books (the ‘attractive nuisances’ are in the front room, with the television of course). Comfortable, warm; big chair, good lighting. It’s raining outside, which makes it all cozier – pleasant,…
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Epifanie
The Feast of Epiphany, the last of the twelve days of Christmas. The day when it all ends. Today the tree came down… the small handmade ornaments (some by family, some from China and Germany when I was there, some discovered in various places) went into plastic bags, the whole holiday into a fairly small…
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Paul Attinello 