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Dislocation
I have had about a day and a half of being really enraged – by an e-mail that felt like a dismissive insult, and from someone that matters to me… and at the same time still getting work done: finishing off that paper on figures of death and transcendence. Today we met for our usual…
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Six years; and recent weeks
Blog Anniversary: since 14 May 2006. It is now six years…. How different life is now than it was then: yes, still in Newcastle, same job, same apartment, still living alone. But the inner world, and my memories, expectations, hopes, feel so different… I suppose I feel more… I don't know. More aware of the…
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… double vision…
It is years since I've seen this… A few days ago I got the DVD of the 1993 film Fearless, with its brilliant combination of the easy-going, handsome yet immensely skilled Jeff Bridges, and endlessly eerie/existentialist Australian director Peter Weir… and of course Rosie Perez and Isabella Rossellini, who also become very important to you…
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Redewendung
On Skype this evening, I was waiting for a prospective student to come online and tell me about a proposed project… he forgot or got the time wrong (this student keeps having trouble remembering which way the time zones run – I suggested he get a computer program to explain it to him…). Hans-Rainer was…
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Sturgeon’s Law
Various versions of this law appear in different places, including different final words… Ted Sturgeon's version was something like, "nine-tenths of everything is crap". Or crud, or inessential, or… well you pick. Having lately bought some books online, without seeing them first, I am feeling the sting of this tragically universal law. And if you…
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Feeling
Last night I watched Weekend, the 2011 film of an encounter between two guys who clearly need each other. Fairly heartbreaking, and very, very well done indeed – writing, acting, all of it. They go through the usual chaotic mistakes of a hasty encounter between strangers, then as they realize they want to spend more…
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