Jasper Johns’ laugh, loud and fugitive like the warning call of a forest creature before retreating to its hole Aaron Sorkin’s comment about it being pathetic of writers to think and treat their characters as if they actually live (meaning I suppose that they ever achieve something like a motive autonomy). For him characters are…
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Tonight: Recycled the actual story about the man who wanted to find water by enlisting the aid of a baboon. Placed a trail of salt leading to a hole in a tree, in which he placed a chunk. But the hole was too small for the baboon to retrieve the chunk in its fist. He…
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Last night: Horace the Hoarse Horse. The eponymous horse (female) took to singing in the meadow during naptime, infuriating all the other animals. One Koala bear named Giddly climbed down from his eucalyptus tree and put pepper in the water of her watering hole, which upon drinking caused Horace to lose her voice. She was…
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Two nights ago: About a young mink that took to midnight swims in the lake, while all her brothers and sisters had to sleep, not being old enough yet to be nocturnal. They tricked her, had her dive into a bag, which she thought was a bubble under the water. They hung her from a…
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The problem with novelists: that they ask for so much of your time; with poets: that they ask so much of your attention, and perhaps belief.
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– Get evening. a greeting for those getting even. – If we must inevitably tailor our thinking to justify the choices we have chosen, is it not possible to step outside the process and make the life we have chosen worth justifying at the outset… – If you are not prepared to see all people…
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“I have a stomach ache that says ‘feed me avocado and yoghurt” Sevi, 5/21/04
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2004 Wednesday, January 7, 2004 ⇒ Narrative ecstasy: leaving the self to identify with others. The magnetism of wanting to assume another life, lose oneself in that compelling illusion, or at least warm oneself with it. But the challenge is that this self to abandon oneself to must be both familiar and brand new. The…
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Ossification of the good – Mary Robinson Child’s development some susceptible to contingency get one thought in their head rather than another, a whole different trajectory in life. Others will docilely graze, intransigent against the vagaries of ideas or incident
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2003 Wednesday, January 1, 2003 ⇒ I make figures in Play-Doh with Sevi and when I crumple them back into the can, Sevi asks “where’s the snake, papa,” or “where’s the person, papa?” I say that they’re now inside the ball of play-doh. “I want to see them again,” she says, it being a matter…
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