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[July 14, 2002: a correspondence of considerable wisdom. Five years later, I think I am on the verge of truly gathering and executing that strength, confidence, and focus. Thanks, Ed.] “Your questions are all good ones. I think you will … Continue reading →

“There are days when everything I see seems to me charged with meaning: messages it would be difficult for me to communicate to others, define, translate into words, but which for this very reason appear to me decisive.” – Italo … Continue reading →

“…I’ll keep you posted on all this reunion-related nonsense. Hey, I know everybody’s coming back to take stock of their lives. You know what I say, leave your livestock alone.” — Minnie Driver as Debi, Gross Pointe Blank.

“You get out there, and the stands are full and everybody’s cheerin’. It’s like everybody in the world come to see you. And inside of that there’s the players, they’re yakkin’ it up. The pitcher throws and you look for … Continue reading →

“I might as well be sitting in the garden of the insane asylum staring into space like an idiot. And yet I know I will eventually settle on a menu, buy the food, and prepare the meal. In this, I … Continue reading →

“The usherette’s reverie, if any (she may be dozing), centers our involvement. She has seen the film. Wanting to be elsewhere, she is elsewhere. Where are we? I think we are in Plato’s Cave, perceiving layered dispositions of reality—those of … Continue reading →