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Door into summer
One of Heinlein’s early novels – back when they were relatively short, amusing adventures, and before his testosterone-driven narcissism and paranoia drove him to write the sprawling, ranting novels of his late demented phase – was The Door into Summer (1956 – the year I was born). The pleasant conceit of the title was that…
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Flowers in the water
Hot bath with oils, flowers embedded in the solid blocks of oils… I haven’t done this for very long in my life, just the past four or five years; and I’ve mostly thought of, explained, them as indulgences and as survival: as pleasures that help me get through the northern British winters (and springs and…
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Missing
There are notes for two more long segments on my surgery and recovery, but I haven’t had the energy to attack them yet. I hope I will finish them – not for your sake: it is entirely possible that the select company friends and strangers who read this blog are already tired of the topic…
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Ostern in Stuttgart (II)
[March 22-25, 2008] Intensiv (Saturday/Sunday) The two days following surgery are complex and not without their pleasures: these are the days immured in intensive care, the days of morphine. These are also the days of constant attention, many tubes and cables, an endless bleeping and ticking of machines, an excellent nurse or two, a charming…
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Ostern in Stuttgart (I)
[March 19-23, 2008] Winterschnee (Wednesday) Snow is forecast, although it is Easter weekend (admittedly a very early Easter, tribute to the peculiarly arcane calculations the Church goes through to establish the date – look it up some time, the formula is nothing short of bizarre); and here it is – rich, heavy snow, very wet,…
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Transitionals
The unhappy weight of guilt around productivity has let up somewhat: since Mitchell has kindly started giving me my marching orders – literally telling me what chapter to draft next, and send it to him – and Melinda, going a bit outside the normal range of activity for a therapist, has chimed in asking for…
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Paul Attinello 