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Restless spring
Five or six days of feeling better. No longer so weak or ill… and it’s spring outside. But not writing. Nor really working, in any way, not even going through old papers to throw them out. Some fragmentary gestures towards completing things. Perhaps if I at least finished writing about my hospital stay: not important,…
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For Vanessa: Reflections on Rubinstein
[A memorial concert was held for Vanessa Knights last Saturday, May 3, a bit more than thirteen months after her death at the age of 38. I gave the following speech, which includes excerpts from a book first published in 1985 and translated in 1989.] If you’ll allow me, I’m going to tell you about…
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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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Paul Attinello 