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Ocean’s… twelve
A calm, efficient, bustling day: cleaning, haircut, picked up the exams to mark, managed the first session of the year of the HIV patient group presentations, shopping, lunch. Not in that order; but things tended to happen neatly, quickly, and all slightly too fast to plan ahead and think about – which is actually good;…
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Dilatory
Yes, I know: don't I comment, far too often, on my own rather flaky, inefficient working life in this blog? It seems that both Michael and Patrick have been annoyed by my apparent inability to just get to work, steadily – Michael to the point of gradually removing me from his virtual list of those-worth-being-concerned-about.…
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Riches
The nameless woman, sometimes called Lady Sarashina, who wrote the eleventh-century Heian memoir As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams, remembers what happened soon after she arrived as a young girl in the capitol Heian-kyo: "As I was leaving she asked, 'What would you like as a present? I am sure you don't want anything too…
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Time/lines
The snow muffles everything, but reflects some light, so that though it is long after midnight I keep moving restlessly around the apartment in a sort of glowing silence, without lights. My sister bought me some Heian literature for Christmas, among other books; it is giving everything a strange resonance – there are three time frames:…
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Year’s end
And so as the year winds down, so does my time here in Sitges. Some wandering around today, dinner with Chris tonight, perhaps wandering around to see what festivities are happening for New Year's Eve in this beach town; then tomorrow at midday a taxi comes, I go to the airport, and come home. I…
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Encounters
The gentle elderly painter from Sunday's party, the one I talked to for a while about strokes (and who called me a 'boy'), was standing in front of a shop window in the street in Sitges yesterday. He looked tired, hesitant and sad, his hair uncombed – though he was wearing a shiny new jacket,…
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