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Night, heat, stasis, change
Last night remained hot – not very hot, but hot enough to reproduce that feeling of endless night, of I’ll-never-get-to-sleep, where faint noises (not traffic – something electrical? an air conditioner a block away?) and the pillow, which is only blessedly cool for a moment when you change to another part of it, create a…
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Awakening II
I wake abruptly into a dark space, responding to some dull sound, some impact, I can only sense the aftershock. I do not know where I am, a flat, low bed, no light, I reach out clumsily to find a switch, any switch: light, music, electric shocks, trying to find a way of altering the…
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¡Scorchio!
Evening: baked earth giving heat back to the sky…. I keep thinking of my relationship to heat, to summer and sun; linked of course with my usual wondering about my relationship with productivity, with writing, with aging, with feeling well, with being happy, with the many other versions of my life I can imagine, and…
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There was a conferencing…
The conference went well… the presentation was basically semi-successful; I realized that I’d gone about it the wrong way round (must be inductive rather than deductive – there are few ways to annoy people more effectively than generalizing about things), but there were still some good moments, and I think that my instincts about the…
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Going to Japan
I’ve never been to Japan before. On a crowded street corner, breathing the acid tang of the gray air, I look at the little hand-drawn map and try to figure out where north is. The oval, blank faces flow past as though they ride on swift, efficient engines, though occasionally one glances at me: gaijin,…
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Aesthetic
Continuing working on presentation – made a bit annoying by my body suddenly coming up with several small annoyances all overnight (a swollen lymph gland, a slight sore throat, my back got twisted last night and aches a bit on one side, and my gums hurt – slightly – all more like little, irritating warning…
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Paul Attinello 