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In real life
Read more: In real lifeFrom back when words meant something. Some weeks ago — my sense of time these days is admittedly fragile — I received an email from a young woman about to graduate from a West Coast American college and eager to find work with this magazine. The mail was read to…
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Tiger and snake
Read more: Tiger and snakeFrom Fellini’s La Strada. During my first decades in Rome, which began in earnest almost exactly fifty years ago, I kept a cellophane scrapbook in which I placed interesting or odd articles I had cut out from local newspapers. The items in the scrapbook never concerned politics or culture. Instead,…
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One man’s “ferragosto”
Read more: One man’s “ferragosto”Rome, bereft of its citizens. No European capital sheds its August citizenry as decisively as Rome. The exodus is a literal rite of passage. Residents of affluent neighborhoods (and, by chance, I live in one) relocate to their summer sinecures in the country, by the sea, or in the mountains.…
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Benchmark
Read more: BenchmarkThe boardwalk at Rehoboth beach, Delaware. August was a bench. That month’s bookmark. It was a place to which I escaped in order to contemplate, if only briefly, the quivering hand of life’s compass, all too often unable to settle on true direction. The bench was long, three beds worth…
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Humouring depression
Read more: Humouring depressionBlack dogs, symbols of gloom. Like a lounge lizard on mean-street rounds, depression makes itself at home with carcinogenic panache. Panache inverted to suit goblets of flair sunny-side down. At least in me. If only cute cleverness dulled the hurt, but it doesn’t. The lounge lizard is unmoved by intellect…
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The great Great Falls mystery
Read more: The great Great Falls mysteryRene Magritte’s Le Plagiat. Iam not Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, or Philip K. Dick, writers who contemplated the imagined as a matter of course. Nor am I Magritte, the ruthlessly precise surrealist who contemplated improbable dimensions to provoke his audiences to, at the very least, consider the ways in which…
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