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In the night
Amidst all this dim worrying and occasional working, and as the nights draw in, and everything transforms to winter – I keep thinking: I’m much more interested in my dreaming life, and sleeping, than I am in my waking life. This isn’t because I remember many of my dreams, nor because those have some powerful…
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Dark history
[Still rather sleepy, still trying to get some editing done – but I realized it’s Halloween, so I thought I should have something slightly macabre. At our lunchtime writing workshop the other day, a woman brought in a souvenir book from the late 1930s that was full of pictures of the Royal Family; our exercise…
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Edits
Editing academic papers… maddened with boredom, procrastinating absurdly. I was reassured when David said to me last week, Yes, editing other people’s work is so boring – given how hard-working and efficient he is, it made me feel better that he would acknowledge the annoyance of this really rather simple and supposedly stress-free task. The…
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In bed
[Los Angeles, 1990] Float in white, not touching earth.Hide quietly. Blurred moments, sense of shifting consciousness and dreams, a time that goes in starts and fragments, processes and gaps, reversals – I hear the mail crash through the door, the sound of panic: ancient bills, requests to steam clean unreal carpets, and most frightening: friendly…
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Being-in-the-world
Still been a bit groggy, and dismayed by the grogginess (though grateful for that extra hour today). Finally forced myself out of the house in midafternoon; walked through the neighborhood, among people doing the things people do (students in couples shopping, a guy with a big smile riding a bike, various children). Mild envy of…
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Fall back
I love getting that hour back in the fall, when the clocks return to ‘real’ time. It’s silly, I suppose – living up here in the north, where by late October the night has eaten more than half the day anyway (official dawn-to-dusk is now eleven hours, and in December that will go down to…
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Paul Attinello 