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Babylon
Apparently ancient Babylon has been damaged by the war… no surprise. Yet more barbarians. I've never been much at memorizing; the only passage I ever learned by heart was from Shelley, one quoted in Eliot's The Cocktail Party. I still remember it: "… Ere Babylon was dust,The magus Zoroaster, my dead child,Saw his own image…
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Distance
A television commercial with rather gentle falling chord sequences on orchestral instruments, in long held notes: very like the wistful Northern California minimalism of the 1980s. I wonder sometimes why it was so necessary for me to leave San Francisco, with no apparent way of getting back. I know why everyone died, of course –…
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Better
With cooler weather, I'm feeling a bit more normal: not energetic, but not as drained, disoriented, worried, as I've been for much of the last week. There may be a slightly embarrassing unpredictability about my more volatile reactions which may be slightly out of my control… I do wonder if the stroke has had any…
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Dis/orient
A day that was fairly normal at the surface, if incredibly tiring: I actually went to the corner store – three bags of food, much needed but almost more than I could carry, changed the bed and did the laundry, took a shower. As that all tailed off this evening… and just before the neighbors…
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Existential
Very tired and weak today; and a certain amount of confusion, trying to negotiate with messages and phone calls from family and friends. Some of their confusion (as opposed to mine) is understandable; when I was in the hospital a number of my colleagues visited me, and I was talkative and cheerful – at least…
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Stroke
So: the news is – I never had the flu; I had, of all things, a stroke. A stroke which fortunately left me with very little damage; for about two days I had trouble understanding and remembering things, but that has cleared up completely (as far as anyone can tell); and now there is a…
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Paul Attinello 