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The hillside
‘And I fell asleep and had this dream’: after continuing to read about awareness, eternity, and timeless responses to tragedy or despair in the Upanishads and Buddhism and Taoism; after the last in a long chain of long days of meetings, tired of but not upset about so many things, and after some champagne (the…
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Demi-overload
Another long day in a series of long days. Some things going well, some exasperating, near to maddening. Colleagues intermittently pleasant, wise and helpful, or occasionally, luckily and mercifully briefly, flaming assholes. Not so bad I suppose – many in business deal with much more, and much worse; and I have of course fought intermittently…
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[untitled]
The classroom reeks of undergraduates. The walls lethargic beige, the chattering, resentful, handsome faces, golden thighs. A grimy fog of answers, questions lost, and every year they miss the point again. The concrete park outside is filled with bursts of advertising, merchandise that blares with stenciled letters, mascots, girls’ glazed smiles. The struggle ended years…
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Suspendu
Hanging between: the restaurant banquet table, and the bathroom door. Or at the table, D– on one side, B– on the other. Between the conversation and the piano: and the imagination of doing something with the piano. Standing among D–’s explications and my doubts. The walk home – between these green summer trees and blue…
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A weekend unblogg’d
“Another lapse in this book, I must confess; but if I do it against my humour I shall begin to loathe it; so the one chance of life it has is to submit to lapses uncomplainingly.” – Virginia Woolf, diaries, 23 October 1917 Friday two students called me back to work after I’d gone home,…
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X-Persons
Went and saw X-Men III tonight. Enjoyed the gay metaphor at the beginning – rather touching really, especially with the lonely teenagers – and some of the setup was impressive; the ending was rather flat of course (why, in an age where fantasy and science fiction films are so amazing looking – finally; I love…
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Paul Attinello 