Paul Attinello

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  • Recovering

    Today's two-hour lecture was probably the last AIDs activity for a while… except of course for catching up with some counseling. Framed with a great deal of self-clarification – I felt the need to explain to my students that I was tired out by the subject… And then did parts of the 'AIDS Rage' lecture,…

  • Backwash

    So, as the events and discussion around AIDS gradually dwindle… even after World AIDS Day, there are still backwashes (or perhaps: backdrafts?) from all these memories and feelings. Monday was the patient group discussion with graduate students in clinical psychology – which is always both easier and deeper than our more usual presentations for medical…

  • Eve

    Tomorrow is December 1 – World AIDS Day – so… today is World AIDS Eve. Or something like that. (And December 2, an even more privately important day: the day Reid died of AIDS in 1983.) Last week I took a less cleaned-up, less – public version of my previous blog post to analysis. Discussion…

  • Death in…

    I, Aschenbach… Perhaps, partially, because it is November: Scorpio, darkness… the weather has been suddenly, sharply colder the past two weeks; a couple of nights of miserably torrential rain, though more days are sunny than is usual for us here on the North Sea. But Scorpio is always the darkest part of the year for…

  • Ten years

    In the midst of a busy period – about ten weeks when everything seems to be happening at once – our HIV patient group celebrated its ten-year anniversary… which is kind of amazing, really. No offices, no paid staff – so there's no way we can be defunded, even in a time when the world…

  • Postscript: the flavor of memory

    There is something about my previous blog entry – which was drafted toward the end of a two-week trip in August, then left unfinished for five or six weeks, then finally published in a rather unbalanced sketch form – that continues in my head…. Copenhagen, Allen, Berlin, Hans-Friedrich. Tivoli, bookstores, Alexanderplatz, the big apartment…. Rostock,…

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