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Mar.20.2011
huh. calendar says 11 days until i move to berlin. yes, with my three enormous suitcases, blah blah, the usual. i remember falling hard for paris because it had all those buttery baked goods & it never even came close to letting me in. then prague has its overwhelming blackened stone &...
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Feb.14.2011
so good...so good.
especially kerfol.
had to sleep with two lights on.
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Jan.19.2011
what a masterpiece peter the great's blackamoor would have been if only pushkin had finished it?
i mean, seriously. i think it would have given othello a slap in the chops.
a dark, comely, melancholy man prepares himself to be wed at the tsar's insistence to a terrified young aristocratic beauty...
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Dec.26.2010
even though i've never been there, and probably never will.
(i suppose i'm talking about moldova.)
hands up if you know what i mean....
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FINE THEN, BE LIKE THAT.
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Jul.25.2010
hmmm.
am moving to prague week after next.
am at that stage in my packing where anything i can't get into my suitcases (three huge ones!) goes in the bin. well, there's an exception - i've found a decent foster home for my yellow hula hoop.
reading up on czech history. in awe of the velvet...
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Apr.05.2010
well well well. happy easter, all. the empty tomb! time for jubilation, &c. let's save the terror for pentecost.
it's been almost ten months or so since my last post, and i'm feeling a bit...chatty.
yesterday i ended a five day vow of silence. 120 hours - pow pow.
no talking, no text...
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Jun.14.2009
on the 23rd of this month White is for Witching is out! it's a novel about a starving girl and a xenophobic house scribbled by myself in Paris and elsewhere. do be nice and give it a read.
does anyone know how one changes one's public profile picture? i can't seem to do it. there, that's the...
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Feb.20.2008
converting the last comment on the dread romeo into a more cheery post about books...yay
have been reading some biographies and non fiction, trying to get at 1940s- 50s america - so, 'the golden girls of MGM', 'rat pack confidential', the marilyn monroe bio by barbara leaming, 'my story' by ginger...
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Feb.11.2008
yayayay thankyou Huntington W Sharp for alerting me to the mention on the homepage - i raise a jacob's cream cracker to the good health of the Red Room community
ha
and i still write the book, but not every day. i just can't, because it's paris,and everything's so pretty and basically i've been...
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Jan.11.2008
every day i write the book
next week i move to france.
i don't know any french.
HOWEVER i am the proud owner of a black crinoline petticoat that can stand up alone. i.e. it is independent
i think i'll take it on the plane with me as hand luggage, as i don't want it to get crushed.
every day i write...
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Dec.14.2007
I started an MFA at Columbia this September. I moved from London to New York in August, and was so excited about the whole thing, being in New York, stripping the craft bare &c, that I ran around the house throwing things into boxes and suitcases and some of them were sharp things and lurked on...
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About Helen
Born in Chisinau, Moldova, December 10th 1904. Died in St. Petersburg, Russia, December 8th, 1930.
Never had a good answer to the question 'what are you doing here?'
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Helen’s Favorite Books
le morte d'arthur and lancelot du lac
the thousand and one nights
the leper's companions
blindness
the queen's diadem
the pillow friend
miss mackenzie
anne of...