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White night
It never feels ‘white’ – though that’s what they call it (what Dorothy Parker called it, anyway). I hate, hate, hate, sleepless or fragmentary or uncomfortable nights – that misery, especially at 4:40 am when you get up to go to the bathroom, hoping that when you get back to bed everything will change and…
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variability grand piano
Does anyone else find the current trend in spam e-mails rather, well, peculiar? The title of this entry was the subject heading for an e-mail I got today…. When did surrealism come back into our culture – and from such an unexpected angle? And what do spammers hope to achieve from such messages – this…
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Journals
In seeking (I am, undoubtedly, what religionists would call a seeker, in many ways) some strategies to get me out of my slough, to get me writing these two articles which are both so overdue and on the verge of being too overdue to publish, I went to Anne LaMott’s Bird by Bird, which is…
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Continued on next rock
Still rather fuzzy/weak/tingly/headachey today. Since I always want an explanation for how I feel, I’m a bit annoyed and stymied – my lab results two weeks ago were just about the best ever, I don’t think I’ve caught anything in the way of current viruses from the students, and so on. Of course, it is…
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Idleisms (which became: Out of balance)
Butt In Chair: the great injunction for writers (okay, perhaps not as great as ‘Done Is Good’, as it’s a bit less presentable in mixed company – whatever that means these days) from Susan M. I am in my chair today, having moved myself and computer from the living room, where the increasingly beaten-up couch,…
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Diagnosis
Was reading Storr’s Dynamics of Creation, where he analyzes creativity (as viewed through biographies of ‘great’ artistic figures) in psychological/psychoanalytic terms. It’s one of his earlier books, and a little clunkier than the later ones – Storr has made a career out of intelligent but popularly-oriented explorations of various experiences in psychological terms; one of…
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Paul Attinello 