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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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Handing it Over: Living in Hong Kong Now [1997]
[Original version of an article published as ‘Hand it Over’, Frontiers San Francisco 16/7 (7/31/97) and Frontiers Los Angeles/National 16/7 (8/8/97).] Flying into Hong Kong’s famous airport, which lies practically between rows of apartment buildings, I thought: Why didn’t anyone ever tell me that Hong Kong was beautiful? Because it is beautiful: behind the crowds…
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Sitges XI
That last afternoon: a major lunch, utterly Catalan food, in a fascinating but frankly rather bizarre restaurant. No wonder, maybe, that Dalí was Catalan – this was indeed surreal at many points – from the sausage tree (actually a grapevine, shellacked, with a selection of local sausages hanging from the branches) to the garlic soup,…
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Sitges X
Words Hmm. Over 6,000 words in the past ten posts, since coming to Sitges on vacation. That’s the equivalent, or nearly, of an academic article… okay let’s say one a bit on the short side, 7,000 is perhaps more normal. And only about 300 words of musicology written in that time. Now I know that…
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Sitges IX (Girona)
Today, cloudy, gray, a sprinkle of rain on the balcony. What a relief, frankly – much cooler (somewhat like a normal summer day in northern England!) – I feel as though I’m recovering from wilting, like a plant at the height of summer. ••• A Girona Yesterday, Girona. Much to do, lots of it tourist-style,…
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