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Smart guys
(First of all: I'm sorry there have been no blog entries for what, a month – no, five weeks. I am improving, especially rapidly lately, though I did no traveling this summer; I am still intermittently tired and fretful, but more often just fine.) Tomorrow is the first day that we face all those new…
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Madness
A day of catching up, cleaning up, getting things done… toward evening, rather than getting back to my research or writing (sorry about that), I read the beginning of Lydia Salvyre's The Lecture, and then saw – unexpectedly – the last episode of season one of the television show Dollhouse. The Lecture is funny, bizarre, ridiculous;…
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Dying / not-dying
Feeling well today. Then feeling very tired, so went and laid down. Then well again. And talking to Alfred, who has more success and fame than I ever will, and who is thirteen years older. After having been treated yesterday by Jambo, my acupuncturist, who is twenty-eight, full of life and presence and direction. I…
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What Happened
I should probably try to put down the details of the stroke, before I lose track of them completely… they are in any case fragments, as I don't remember everything, and it was all fairly disjunct, bizarre, surreal… and unfortunately now some time ago. Thursday night, June 18, 2009 – just about a day after…
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Alternative histories
Last night's dream: a music conservatory, walking between buildings in rainy autumn weather – I am a student working on my technique, talking with others – serious, committed and reasonable, as I never actually was in school… a surprisingly detailed, and strange, setting. Like another life, one that might have happened. Today I was working,…
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A good day
Despite my pathetic worries, and Kit's critique, Gay Pride in Newcastle was pleasant, and it was good to see everyone. My energy faded to nothing after about an hour and a half, but I expected that; and so went home, having greeted and hugged a number of people, picked up a few pamphlets and whistles,…
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