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La zingara
Read more: La zingaraKeep a horn handy. My mother was superstitious, a trait she said she’d acquired from her Polish father, whom she vaguely described as a mystic. I never knew if he wore a wizard’s cone at dinner or simply poisoned black cats and insulted ladders. My mother loathed ladders, all the…
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Girlfriend Studies
Read more: Girlfriend StudiesCheerful Frances, too tall to marry. Girlfriend Studies seems to have acquired interdisciplinary status based on the number of independent filmmakers making movies about the urban American dating scene and the superbly intelligent but sublimely estranged women who populate it. While Woody Allen’s 1977 “Annie Hall” served as a modern…
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No place for a pony
Read more: No place for a ponyFiction is exciting, the real thing more banal. Political theorist Hannah Arendt coined the phrase “the banality of evil” to describe a German bureaucracy that applied bookkeeping practices to the extermination of millions. If the act suggested monsters, the reality offered actuaries. Banality’s most recent victim may be space exploration,…
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Silent running
Read more: Silent runningIam fit for the mission to Saturn. I have been examined by experts and told that my health is not at issue. Instead, they have admired my tolerance for solitude and pronounced it too rare to measure and therefore apt for the mission. They have told me that while the…
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Inky
Read more: InkyBlotted hands were a rite of passage. You sleep with a woman who in the morning steps out of the shower and comes up with a line you know you’ll never forget, “You left ink on my back.” Nostalgia takes many forms. So do dreams. Some are stained with newsprint.…
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Zitti!
Read more: Zitti!Organ grinder in Rome of the 1950s. Rome has cancer of the air. The louder humans get, the louder their cities sound, and Rome’s metastasis is pervasive. But it’s not fatal. The city carries the gene of its own immunity. Romans are an outdoor, earsplitting people, like infants born to…
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