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Sullen
Sorry I haven’t written… Continuing irritable, depressed, at a bit of a loss; plus intermittent unexpected headaches, and a chaotic gastrointestinal tension that seems, capriciously, to react badly to whatever I eat. Summer is now technically over, we’re on the verge of masses of work for oncoming students; three days ago a student, after apologizing…
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Glorious
A truly beautiful day, a glorious day. There have been many fine days this summer – no question about it, the hottest year in history has given us the summer weather that seems proper to me, a real summer in the seventies Fahrenheit, with sun and breezes and all. I am unfortunately so mechanistic (really:…
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Augusts
[Los Angeles, 1991] My father’s birthday is in August, near the month’s beginning. This fact tends to establish the month’s meaning, its varied characteristics and echoes – aside from the obvious ones such as vacations and unbearable heat. My quiet, gentle father, with his rooms of shelves of memories on film, of papers in disarray.…
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Nothing
What are our friends doing, when we don’t see them? What are our favorite short story writers doing in the long periods when they aren’t polishing the paragraphs we finally love so much? Or novelists when they aren’t hewing away at the massive structure of their newest Bildungsroman? Or actors when they aren’t getting deep…
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The dark mirror of the skin
It is strange, and trivial, and serious, and ambiguously embarrassing: to write about my own skin, about my psoriasis. The factual: I’ve had psoriasis since I was eighteen (I was devastated when the doctor told me, as though I could already foresee what it would mean throughout my life, or perhaps what I would make…
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Fragments of the day
Acquisition and maintenance One of the somewhat pathetic aspects of my life – not just in the past five years of English exile, but since I was started to lose faith in my creative abilities and future career, at the age of seventeen – is my tendency to spend much (and I mean: much) of…
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