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“The straight and the winding way are one and now that you are here what do the years count since last we two met together? Men’s memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that … Continue reading
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The New York Public Library lions remind me of the Art Institute of Chicago. (Fortitude, or Patience) Our tour guide was an old myopic man in an oversized suit who smelled of camphor. His hair was slicked down to the side … Continue reading
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I moved to Brooklyn!!! This is what it looks likes to go to Brooklyn: Ciao! Manhattan I also just read The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald. Winfred Georg, but he went by Max. It’s the story of four disconnected emigrants from … Continue reading
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I think there are songs that you don’t hear until you’re meant to. The subway is a great place to really hear a song. Maybe because your other senses are dimmed your hearing is amplified. Some of the songs that … Continue reading
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Helen sent me this picture, taken a while back, when she still lived in New York, and I still had all my hair (I cut 14 inches off last week). I thought I’d include the picture and the poem she … Continue reading
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I saw this book at Left Bank last week: These are SO German: black bread, dark socks with sandals, precision, fairy tales and Romantics, my passport and my mama!
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The other day while walking to work I noticed this funny safety sign: And one thing we have lost — the courage to make new words or combinations. Somewhere that old bravado slipped off into a gangrened scholarship. Oh! you … Continue reading
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Time travel is one of my favorite things to think about. I like to think about Ray Bradbury’s A Sound of Thunder and how everything in history, even a butterfly, can change the world with its existence. But I also … Continue reading
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Sandra was looking at this book when she was over yesterday and it reminded me of how great it is. I bought it two years ago at the bookstore where I used to work in LA because there’s a picture … Continue reading
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I wandered into Mercer Street Books today, which I’ve often passed by but never been in. Lots of treasures, including this soft book: Here’s poem 19: there is a here and that here was a town(and the town is so … Continue reading