Paul Attinello

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  • Sitges: Art

    It turns out I have Internet access here – probably from some neighbor who hasn’t put a password on their system. I had various minor anxieties about coming here: will it be too commercial, too self-conscious, too artificial? Will I have the unhappy experiences I’ve had in the past, even though they are always mixed…

  • Away, away

    Off to Sitges for a week. Have fussed about whether this is really where I should be traveling, what I need, what effect it is supposed to have: what would make me happy(ier), what would get me back to work, what would refresh me? Anyway, this is what it is. So: see you later alligator….

  • Ostern in Stuttgart (IV)

    [Fourth – perhaps there will be five – in a series on my hospital experiences last month.] [March 26 – 31] Porträts (Wednesday) As I lay in the hospital, recovering, with not many things happening on any given day (a status which will last for about a week, as it happens), I meet various nurses,…

  • Prescription

    So… Mitchell's response to my impulsive desires to travel to, probably, Barcelona, and getting a cat, is, quite sensibly: okay then, get a flight and then get a cat. Melinda's therapeutic suggestion today was the same. All right: I get it. Simple answers to simple desires. A casual phone call to Joyce, she was in…

  • Third, fourth, eighteenth thoughts

    … on the other hand.. perhaps I should just get back to work. Or perhaps I really need more rest. Or… Too many years of interest in psychology, including pop psychology, including of course any possible interpretation of my own psychology, and interest in many ideas of productivity and success, or happiness, or, well, I…

  • What Barcelona and a cat have in common

    No, it’s not a riddle. It’s also not a forgotten manifesto from the Surrealists. I still want something… feeling relatively healthy though still not energetic (especially yesterday and today, oddly and inexplicably tired after short errands and walks); but I am restless, and childishly rebellious that I should expect myself to get back to work…

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