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Last night, exceptionally strange dreams: psychotic, then sociopathic, figures – strange flashes of ruthless danger, violence. Not frightening exactly, not a feeling of nightmares, but certainly alarming – perhaps more alarming on waking: to write about them brings one to a stop, to a point of shock. Of course, in Jungian terms, some kind of…

Early December is always strangely dense, a bit one-thing-after-another, though some of those things are subterranean rather than evident out in the world: World AIDS Day is on the first; and I tend to remember, not always on the day but sometimes the next day, that Reid died of AIDS on December 2, 1983; then…

A difficult day after a difficult night: not much sleep resulted in a chaos of thoughts, worries. Can I really afford this, this adventure in Küsnacht? Is it a good time to be starting such a program, am I sure that I can do the work, that I won't tire and fail? Of course I…

[I heard the inaugural speech in a BBC studio, where I'd been asked – just forty-five minutes before it started – to come represent the point of view of a 'regular' American to the new President's speech. As you may imagine, I liked it… it seemed tough, honest, specific, real, uncompromising, like some of FDR's…

I really hate politics. Especially American politics. Since I was young when watching news about the Viet Nam war, since I was a teenager when Nixon showed us what politicians are made of, since I watched in despair as Reagan, then Bush, wrecked everything I had liked about America – and not incidentally directly impacted…