Each maintained that the others’ foul mood brought him down. Yet no one was prepared to be happy first.
Read moreMan so jittery
eating a chocolate bar in the subway so jerkily it was like a strobe light was hitting him.
Read moreMan so thin
his shirt hung from shoulders as from a hanger. Something called forth the feeling of falling. Everthing about him was stomach in mouth, freefall.
Read moreAnn Coulter
has a face about as subtle and inviting as an elbow.
Read moreEnvironmental Devastation
Uniquely painful to our generation? Which is both acutely aware of it and tasked with responsibility for it. We may be the last generation to remember (insular though our outlook may have been, but mainstream was insular) an environment seemingly not under threat, as a refuge of the eternal and regenerative. As in, the mtns…
Read moreMovie: Flight 93
Was moved by it, found it good, though also sui generis. A film about a time we experienced that brought back waves of dread. Was curious to know what exactly happened and admired the fidelity to facts, the restraint. A bit bothered by the silly jiggling camera particularly in all the suburban settings with people…
Read morewm. paul cont’d
And you speak of “the agent” as someone with sensibility, someone who really KNOWS something. The agent is the default person, the bottom feeder who cares for nothing, the made-up man
Read moreAging
“The years have been kind to you.”“Maybe. But I feel as though they’ve been talking behind my back.”
Read moremanipulating people
I can’t still give myself a satisfactory answer to the idea of manipulating an audience, and you ask why I’ve made no progress…
Read morewm. paul
everything about him was mirth and a perfect understanding of how contingent he was. I wished I could be so laid back. I had a debt to seriousness, and still do. A certain flailing exposure to everything, to apprehending (maybe controlling) it all. whereas he has seen this as a job o’ work. not much…
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