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Dallas
Today was World AIDS Day; a brief radio interview, then a panel after a film – and the film was Dallas Buyers Club. Now, as it happens, I'd never seen Dallas Buyers Club before tonight. I have discs and downloads of lots and lots of AIDS movies, and television and other media – but quite…
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Men in autumn • fragments • a flash
I haven’t written here for a while… somewhat preoccupied, fairly busy. Walking through what feels like several lives at once: the university (with various changes in upper-level policy – an annoying time for British universities, as upper-level business savages try to extend control over non-business systems), my analysands (and another new one, and new chairs…
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Trains • Perelandra • Complex
[Fragments from several days, several locations. A certain connectedness – but be ready for jumps in continuity: like a student film.] A lot of train trips the past few months: my analyst lives (fortunately very near the train station) in Leicester, about three and a half hours away… my 'local' supervisor in York (i.e. closer…
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Bologna – Train – Circeo
Five days in Bologna; with a vague idea of possibly living here some day… Or, well, perhaps not. There is a great deal of beauty in this town: the buildings, the food; the charming kindness of the two men who run the bed and breakfast that was suggested by some London friends. Of course there…
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Masterworks
Before I leave Switzerland behind – the next to last night in Küsnacht, some people who were about to graduate (= who have now graduated) from the Jung-Institut told us about their dissertation topics. I took substantial notes on at least four, because frankly – and yes, I did indeed say this out loud afterwards…
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relatively quiet – continuing developments
A calm day – mild rain since last night, Zürich is cooling off after a sunny week. The hourly church bells – they have seemed remarkably reassuring for the past few days; perhaps I am getting accustomed to them. After, of course, several years – have I really been coming here, however irregularly, since 2009?…
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