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leaving again!…
Off to Spain tomorrow – so depending on wifi access, I may be offline for ten days. Sitges, and of course Barcelona; with Susan and Rob, and seeing Chris, and possibly Dennis. Sun, stunningly handsome men, fabulous fish and garlic and chorizo, little streets, shorts and sandals; a little apartment of my own in the…
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… a good night
Last Wednesday, after a long day, I went out with Patrick to his favorite pub; we talked to acquaintances of his who turned out to be charming, intelligent and friendly, went on to a club, and stood around on the outside balcony (recently expanded for the newly exiled UK smokers) until closing time at 3…
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Prismatics
Late at night: reading this very interesting dissertation on phenomenological time and Busoni – the prisms of time, a mysterious way of seeing and thinking time and hierarchy that de-hierarchicalizes everything… it is like Ballard’s illuminated man in The Crystal World: “… when my recovery is complete I shall return… with one of the scientific…
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Gimmicks
I’m reading a PhD dissertation for tomorrow’s defense (okay, those are my American terms for it – for you Brits: a thesis for tomorrow’s viva) on Busoni (not Bussotti – I work on Bussotti, and am in fact one of the few people writing in English to do so – and incidentally people often seem…
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Cycles, dreams
Having been back about ten days, and having done only administration, plus many chores; and lying around a lot the past few days, sleeping; I start thinking… cycles: the hours that make up a day, and how we move through them; the days of a week, a month; the school year, with its enormous contrasts…
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Fragments from traveling
Air France (I) I hate Air France. I mean really: they have screwed up every flight, everywhere; and of course they are associated with the dreadful De Gaulle airport, which I think is actually worse than Heathrow (if such a thing is possible). And they really don’t care… [6/25/07] ••• Getting it wrong Getting it…
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