Dream Fragment
Who among us up here / wouldn’t want his love, her love / to carry a trace that clear
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Hope Is Good. Disappointment Is Better
What the best novels teach us about the virtues of disillusionment
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Digital Distraction Is Bad for Creativity
What a silent evening with an author I admired taught me about solitude and writing well
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An Occurrence on the Beach at Varosha
The evening’s last light has drained out of the sky behind the procession of dead hotels lining the beach. Up to twenty storeys high, they were built so close together …
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Baffled in Ashdod, Blind in Gaza
E.A.: former Israeli Defence Forces soldier who, in August 2010, posted photos of herself smiling beside bound and blindfolded Palestinian prisoners. She labelled her Facebook album “The army… best time …
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Baffled in Ashdod, Blind in Gaza
Bystanders
Air this thin turns anyone into a mystic. Dulling the mind, it dulls distinctions, slurs the border between abstractions—right and wrong—or apparent opposites—dead and alive, past and present, you and …
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Noughts & Crosses
– – – – – Original Message – – – – – From: <j.in.corydon@hotmail.com> To: <nella_biagini@sympatico.ca> Sent: April 22, 2007 1:16 AM Subject: RE: Hello? n, yes yes i did …
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Some Other Just Ones
The printer who sets this page with skill, though he may not admire it. singers of solo expertise who defer and find harmonies instead. Anyone whose skeleton is susceptible to …
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