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Hard
Sunday afternoon in Newcastle. Sunny and clear, shops and restaurants open, people walking along. A young guy, shaved head, talks on his phone, walking up and down. He goes to the corner of a granite building near the bus stop, leans over, retches – vomits, not much, some chunks of food in what is probably…
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An LA
Today was a day of minor but busy actions – a plane ticket, unraveling the resultant bank transactions, e-mails, laundry. No real or serious work, as too many days since Thomas went back to Munich – my fault of course… but this evening I was feeling utterly relaxed, physically and mentally, watching some TV… and…
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Magic, Inc.
Words from a favorite passage of a favorite novel came to mind today. In the midst of a modern, slangy conversation about a dangerous situation and what to do, the tone changes: "Jedson said suddenly, 'White prevails over black.' She answered, 'Certainly.' 'Everywhere?' 'Everywhere, since darkness is the absence of light.' He went on, 'It is…
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Last days
It is – probably – the second-to-the-last day of real summer; tomorrow is probably, as it were, the closing firework display of good weather. Pleasant that it will be a Sunday, after Rumana's big party tonight. Of course the weather forecast from Monday onwards, and knowledge of how North Sea weather goes, gives just a…
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Turning points
The truth is: all points these days feel kind of like turning points. Somewhere between August and September; between summer and fall. Between the expected weather for this part of the world, and this gloriously sunny day, when we sat out in a lovely Italian garden restaurant, and where the warmth and food were almost…
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Wings
A sudden and amazingly heavy rain fall: plus a lot of hail – that strange sense of buckets of water and ice falling, and for a considerable while. The usual fragments of thought about climate change and problem weather, combined with the visceral excitement of it all, which is fortunately happening on the other side…
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Paul Attinello 