Paul Attinello

Category: Memory

  • Temporal anomalies

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    (… you know… as in Star Trek, I suppose.) So, several weeks of the stress but not really misery, chaos but not really feeling frantic, the Stäbler book – working on it but not fast enough – and many smaller demands, extra classes coming out of nowhere, paperwork, and so on and so on. With…

  • Joins

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    I sleep a lot in the past weeks… not in some sort of avoidance, just a quiet dream of winter… I keep being aware of the joins, the cracks, between the great blocks of things that can be seen: if when I was younger a great deal of my thinking, and ultimately my research, tended…

  • Eve

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    Tomorrow is December 1 – World AIDS Day – so… today is World AIDS Eve. Or something like that. (And December 2, an even more privately important day: the day Reid died of AIDS in 1983.) Last week I took a less cleaned-up, less – public version of my previous blog post to analysis. Discussion…

  • Postscript: the flavor of memory

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    There is something about my previous blog entry – which was drafted toward the end of a two-week trip in August, then left unfinished for five or six weeks, then finally published in a rather unbalanced sketch form – that continues in my head…. Copenhagen, Allen, Berlin, Hans-Friedrich. Tivoli, bookstores, Alexanderplatz, the big apartment…. Rostock,…

  • Cities, days: back in August…

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    So… after my summer was partly derailed by Jung-Institut exams, then the flu and a month of its aftermath – I chose to travel to København (Copenhagen, to you in the back) for my first-ever conference of IAAP, the international Jungian organization; but Stockhom first, for fun, with Annick; and then Manchester, for Pride weekend.…

  • First-world problems

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    I understand the joke, 'first-world problems' – it's what we say when the refrigerator breaks or our flight is delayed. The sense is that we are rich and expect everything to be easy, and that our biggest problems are details, minor frustrations, compared with those in other parts of the world. Especially when several other…

  • The Invention and Dissemination of the Printing Press, and its Wider Effects on Culture

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    Astounding, last night, to discover: there are e-books, well-edited, clean and professional, of both the great James McCourt's amazing Mawrdew Czgowchwz and the great Hermann Broch's amazing The Death of Virgil. If these two are available, then… no real barriers remain. Everything is changing, utterly… (I'm not worried about Finnegans Wake – despite a lifelong attachment…

  • In-the-midst-of

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    A day that had one-thing-after-another in it: some are familiar, even long-repeated actions, some are new; there are pleasures, there are boring bits: and that quailty that has appeared in several (no: in a number) of my posts lately, of being transitional, of being sort of in-between. Liminal, perhaps. With students, cheerful or as though…

  • Flash

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    Reading in bed, electronic on an iPad, Tove Jansson's story collection Traveling Light. I was very happy when it, with the other recent ones – especially Fair Play – were translated by a small London publisher; my intense attachment to the Moomin books, especially the eerie late ones, and to my old, beaten-up copy of…

  • Nadir; and the problem of small talk

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    At the lowest point of light, time, and the year: that dark still point before the cycle turns back upward. It was interesting to see some people get upset over the entire Mayan-end-of-the-world meme – furious that people would dare discuss something not scientifically proven. But of course part of its attraction for many –…