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Things that are easy
After months of moving from anger to exasperation, through guilt and a sense that I was holding out on him too long (and thereby being petty, etc.), I finally texted Patrick tonight, and we Moved On, which took a total of four text messages. So utterly easy, as it always is in these things once…
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Bathing at Delphi
I continue to like Jarman more and more, overturning my earlier irritable disdain. I have been reading his Chroma, a sort of journal/book of quotes/poetry cycle/death diary, the last book he wrote before he died: it’s full of memories and the frightening and painful bits of dying of AIDS, but also full of the joy…
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Jarman’s Garden
I’ve been watching Derek Jarman’s The Garden (1990) in order to write about it for the book. I wasn’t looking forward to this, because I’ve conceived such an annoyed dislike for such films as Sebastiane and War Requiem – the glacial pace, the stiff acting, the cheesy tech. But I was immediately enchanted by this…
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The larger sense of time
Late last night, after a day of getting some things done and some falling aside, looking for a book to take to bed: and I picked up the big collected poetry by Czeslaw Milosz. A beautiful book – well, a book full of beautiful stuff – but really too large for a poetry book, even…
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Hi guys
Sorry to stop blogging for, what, about three weeks now. A TypePad employee fixed my last Stuttgart blog post, then rather tartly e-mailed me to say that they didn’t expect to give customers that kind of help. Which kind of soured me on the whole blog thing for a bit… didn’t know how to fix…
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TypePad mess
Apologies, I have several posts waiting in various formats, and others in my head unwritten; but TypePad’s new setup messes with the formatting in invisible ways, and I can’t seem to resolve it. Will post when I can either figure out what to do, or they fix the mess they’ve made. (Although – admittedly –…
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