Paul Attinello

Category: Blogging

  • The whole point

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    I’m enjoying this blog. It’s not a big deal, I know – mostly just small, casual writing, with the address shared with a few friends – but it is succeeding in exactly what I wanted it to do, that is, helping me to get into the habits of writing, communicating, thinking, making sentences. Even at…

  • A weekend unblogg’d

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    “Another lapse in this book, I must confess; but if I do it against my humour I shall begin to loathe it; so the one chance of life it has is to submit to lapses uncomplainingly.” – Virginia Woolf, diaries, 23 October 1917 Friday two students called me back to work after I’d gone home,…

  • Correcting blogs

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    Spurious has made a small error on his May 14 post, where he mentions coming by and looking through Temblor (the Language Poet anthology/journals I keep at the very end of the Poetry bookcase), Milosz, Xenakis, etc. – he says I copied Berio for him; it was in fact Henze, but the most radical and…

  • Jumping aboard

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    I’m starting this blog on a typically chilly gray day in this northern city of exile. I still don’t know exactly how I’ll construct this virtual world – thinking of my own journals, my own writings, other blogs, even the whole elaborate ecosystem of the blogsphere – but, as in everything, jumping in is the…