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Copenhagen
It is the wrong season to see this play. I’m thinking of warm countries, a week in Sitges at the end of the month, making pasta with roast vegetables…. But Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen is on television again, and the last time I didn’t get to see it from the beginning. The intricacy, the overlapping conceptual,…
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The kids are being funny again
[The following rather peculiar typewritten document was evidently the response of my sisters, my brother and I to the eternal parental demand that we thank relatives for our Christmas presents. What it must have been like to preside over a household of four children… note especially the interesting salutations, which probably sounded almost normal in…
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S.E.P.
Telephone call on a Sunday, from the police in a small village in the county south of here. Apparently someone has disappeared, and the neighbors are worried about him – someone I’ve never met: but someone who is on my list of contacts for HIV patients who want to talk to someone. This is a…
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Reitalianization
[Los Angeles, 1990] Tonight is party night – lights, glasses, guests: a dazzling and varied collection of Italian designers, Italian models, a very choice set of imported beauties (tutti questi Italiani). The only non-Italian is our host, who introduces us to his new boyfriend Gianfranco, a richly dark man with remarkable hands who, in the…
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Evanescent
Spurious mentioning Handke reminds me, not of the brief writings I’ve read by him (always elegant, exquisitely tooled, even if they do seem to leave the universe a little darker and more hopeless); but of a completely amazing stage work I saw by Handke in 1994, and reviewed for an academic newsletter. I can’t find…
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Maintenance
Tonight I was doing my rather intricate monthly bagging of pills – I’ve been doing it for years. It is a possibly somewhat over-meticulous response to, on the one hand, the intricate demands of HIV medications and the many supplements I take; and, on the other, my tendency to lose track of everyday actions unless…
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Paul Attinello 