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Out to lunch (Sitges V)
Today Susan and I went in to Barcelona on the train, to wander around and indulge ourselves. I wanted to do something unusual for lunch – in Sitges we have been a bit too conservative, too pedestrian, landing repeatedly at a popular Argentine steak house (pleasant but a tiny bit boring). So we were thinking…
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Getting Out (Sitges IV)
After the previous two posts, sleepless and, as always, aware that one should employ every minute of vacation time rather than waste it, I went out at 3 am to Trailer, my favorite of the dance clubs here. It turns out that 3 is too early for Trailer, and it was virtually empty – I…
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The abbot’s story
Have I ever told you the story of the Japanese abbot? – no, of course I haven’t. It was a tale that caught my imagination, or perhaps arose into my memory, some time in the late 1980s; on my computer is an aborted text where I tried to tell it, embedded in an imagined story…
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Temporal (Sitges III)
After midnight, difficult to sleep, hearing David Lang’s shimmering, wispily endless Orpheus Over and Under pieces. There is something bothering me about Neville’s illness and impending death (aside from the obvious), plus its effect on his partner Chris, plus our mutual friend Dennis’ moving away up the coast, and the possible knock-on effects of these…
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Gloriana
Listening to a favorite work, perhaps not one of the monuments of Western music, but, well – Britten’s Choral Dances from Gloriana, a suite of all-too-short dances that represent a miniature masque held in the Elizabethan court. I love the whole opera, too, although the best recording doesn’t seem to be available any more; of…
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Imperturbable (Sitges II)
Even after a demented pair of nights spent trying to keep up with Nick, a handsome, sexy younger guy – one whose approach to everything is aggressively, even competitively, sensual, and who complains in one breath about the “bubble” of Sitges (by which he means the strangely unreal effect of the desire-oriented population – and…
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