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Oct.02.2012
Why do people turn on their neighbors? Why do friends become enemies? Why do whole populations who have lived peacefully together try to destroy each other? Why does life turn into a terrible game of Them and Us?
Modern history is littered with examples of one...
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Oct.01.2012
It helped that my traveling partner was a travel agent, of sorts. He was actually a successful banker who dabbled in travel to accentuate the perks he'd already accumulated as a banker and national master's golf champion.
No, not that Master's. He was just a good golfer who won the national...
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Sep.28.2012
In a very wise move, BART long ago decided to build an extension of its service and tracks to San Francisco International airport. What a blessing it seemed to be, those of us fearing various traffic hurdles on our way through and over and around Bay Area freeways. Oh! the fear and horror of 7 am...
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Sep.27.2012
Winter Journal, by Paul Auster
image via npr.org
You pick up memoir such as this one expecting...what? A life laid out chronologically? The failures of parenting - yours and that of your parents? Confessions and dirty linen? The titillation of romantic escapades? Saucy comments about...
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Sep.26.2012
September 26
SCREAMING LETHARGY
The screaming lethargy of being alive after many years of wanting something else, the exhaustion of pulsing, breathing, waves and waves of thinking. Yet as tired as I am, I am. Here without a doubt, I stand. No...
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Sep.25.2012
“There’s no work for us,” Ali said, “because we’re old.” The sound of the Bulgarian words was familiar to my ears by now. My friend L. was translating. Ali and his wife C. were only in their fifties, but considered themselves old – and, to be honest, their hard lives had aged them...
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Sep.18.2012
A great honour for any author (sure, he was also President of the country - but still). I hope there will be a bookstore in this section of the airport, with many books by many Czech authors [hint]. And also a nice international array [hint again].
Of course, it would have also been great to...
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Sep.06.2012
Just received this eloquent short article by Tom Weiss, a business owner in Knoxville, and a fine poet. I was lucky enough to work with him this May, in our workshop in Auvillar, France. All the writers who work with me there come from different...
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Sep.04.2012
Now is the Time (September - ahhh!) and this is the place -Prague! - for a wonderful vacation. And what (I ask) could make you any happier than the follow in the footsteps of Franz Kafka?It will even make you more happy than Kafka himself, who was actually no great fan of Prague ("The little mother...
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Sep.02.2012
“The world is going to Hell.” We’ve been hearing that for so long, it may seem surprising that we haven’t got there yet, but plenty of people have been there and some would say they still are.
For many folks trying to exist behind the Iron Curtain, everyday life was a kind of Hell. That...
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