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Raccoon passes

Monday, January 31, 2005

Midmorning and the raccoon is among the plant saucers that serve as water containers for birds. In fact, it stands in one and looks about vacantly. Then it is obvious: the tell-tale limp, and the horrible nasal discharge: rabies or distemper. The raccoon was standing in the water because of fever. Whether distemper or rabies, [...]

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Art and melancholy

Thursday, January 27, 2005

The city as society’s agent abandons its denizens as night abandons light, as easily as it discards the aged and children and solitaries. The melancholy of urban night intensifies the melancholy of the city as the individual’s own pretenses to contentment are stripped away by the betrayal of autonomy that society represents. Edward Hopper, the [...]

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Moon spill

Tuesday, January 25, 2005

A brilliant full moon is casting cold clear light straight through the curtains and onto the bare floor. I look up, startled and shivering, thinking: What a mess to clean up! But then I awaken. Bolting up in the dark I see that the floor is clean. No light has spilled anywhere. The moon has [...]

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Joinville on hermits

Friday, January 21, 2005

In his Chronicle of the Crusade of St. Louis, the thirteenth-fourteenth century writer Joinville mentions an incident refering to hermits. On his party’s arrival on the Greek island of Lampedousa, he relates: We found an ancient hermitage in the rocks and the garden that the hermits who dwelt there had made: olives, figs, vines and [...]

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Monthly Archives: January 2005

Raccoon passes

Art and melancholy

Moon spill

Joinville on hermits

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