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Betwixt / between
The trick with posting to a blog: one wants a given post to have a certain integral focus. What, then, if "fate keeps on happening" (Loos)? This weekend, friends of Spurious in town; had an amusing time with them. My beloved friend P–– is doing very well. Had varying news from doctor, either bad or…
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The shark’s last love
Floating out of sight under the boat’s rim, waiting for the end. Pain in his hammered tail, bleeding on the chains, but he thought, Glory, glory, and remembered richly textured gray skin, the smooth flow of ridgéd spines. Twisting and snapping, such power, he’d fly far away to race through favorite waters, to moan with…
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Postcard from exile
Beautiful cars float on the freeways. The Hollywood sign has been repaired. Surfaces are chromed and dazzling, fine sunglasses conceal our memories. [Los Angeles, 5/2/90]
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Complexity / clarity
Perhaps it is because I was reading about Heidegger last night – and actually understood, and responded to, the simplest possibilities of the ideas of being and authenticity…. or maybe it’s just that it is Saturday. And maybe it’s just that I finally changed the bedclothes from the heavy winter comforter to a light summer…
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Trick reflections
Today all of the postgraduates had work due (and I am the Cerberus, or perhaps more accurately Rhadamanthys, of this whole structure). I received several frantic calls and e-mails starting from about 8:30 am, from students who had hit some sort of wall, intellectual or physical – one battling with an incoherent conclusion, another with…
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Signal to noise
Awakened by the bass from that rather inane dance track that the girl downstairs has suddenly taken a liking to… or more probably it’s her ungracious Glaswegian boyfriend who likes, and plays, it. Good thing he’s rarely around. I know enough of apartment life in a variety of contexts to know that I’m lucky here;…
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