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Air
Something remarkable about today's air: cool, damp, sharp – an almost Scandinavian feel to it. Although northern England is close to the latitudes of Denmark and southern Sweden, we don't often get quite that kind of air – it reminds me of that sense of clarity one gets in Copenhagen some days, where everything seems…
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Formal analysis of current status of complex
(As musicians, we are accustomed to formal analyses that don't emphasize the contents/material of what is analyzed. Herein a therefore relatively abstract reiteration of some of my understanding of the past 24 hours.) Recently understood aspects of complex formation suggest modification of my own emotional self-analysis: (1) von Franz clarifies the basic structure of complexes…
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The Evil Internet
Normally, although the Internet is a mess of advertising and manipulation, much of my daily experience of it is relatively personal, or at least to my taste. But in the last few days the trashy, controlling, greedy, incompetent, screaming corporate world has been moving in heavily on some of my familiar standards… the Mac shareware…
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First Books
Another thing I picked up today in Blackwell's… Susan Hill, Howard's End is On the Landing. One of those books about reading that seem to be going around the past few years; a nice, classy, personal, terse, realistic one by an experienced writer with a brain. She speaks at one point of the first books…
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Volatility
After last night's cold-shower rush of awareness, I was given a pleasant gift as a reward, so to speak: a sunny, warm day, lovely and pleasant. Deserved, don't you think?…. well if you don't think so feel free not to chime in. Met with Melinda, the psychologist at the clinic, about plans/prospects for taking interferon.…
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Awakening Conscience
Sometimes, especially when watching TV or wasting time by various means, I have that feeling of exhaustion, surfeit, revulsion, retreat: somewhere among the parts of my rather dull life over the past decade as an aging academic living alone in a small northern city with lots of wet, cold weather, and despite seeking some sort…
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Paul Attinello 