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Mann / Woods
No, that's not some Joycean take on 'woodsman'. John E. Woods has been translating – retranslating – Thomas Mann's major works for over a decade now; I only recently found out about it. I've got The Magic Mountain, and Doctor Faustus arrived today; Buddenbrooks and Joseph and his Brothers (which I'd always assumed was one of…
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Signal to noise
On a day when I'm finally finishing that article that has hung over my head for three weeks, almost finished; and need to work on airline schedules, voter registration, and other miscellanea, which really should be finished today… not one but three invitations to chat, to have dinner, to go out. My negative response puts…
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Autumnal acts
My cleaner, Katia, came today (she is Bulgarian, blonde, charming, and kind; she brought me chocolates when I had been in the hospital; her children and husband moved here a month ago from Bulgaria, and they are settling in to school, college, and jobs with alacrity). We needed to do a Big Task: take the…
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Relational
Not quite so sure I won't try to become a Jungian analyst; we'll see. Of course, in any major decision it is good to give up on it at one point, at least… but despite my concerns about age, health, time, cost, logistics, appropriateness, and what might be my underlying (possibly suspect, narcissistic, inflated or…
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A dream fragments, fades
Awake at 5 a.m., thinking of this possibility – this goal, this plan, this dream, this path, this vision, this fantasy – of becoming a Jungian analyst. It is still hard to tell which of those various things it is… but right now I'm thinking: probably a fantasy. I'll continue to check into it –…
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Political
I really hate politics. Especially American politics. Since I was young when watching news about the Viet Nam war, since I was a teenager when Nixon showed us what politicians are made of, since I watched in despair as Reagan, then Bush, wrecked everything I had liked about America – and not incidentally directly impacted…
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Paul Attinello 