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Ballet Hangs On
“Ballet’s relationship to time— the fact that the repertory, unanchored by text, is always vanishing, just as the dance image on the stage is always vanishing—forms a large part of the vividness and...
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Dredge the Brain
“Because look at me–I’m fucking falling apart. I’m constantly corroding. If you stand still that’s when it really gets you. Take a look at some of those steel buildings that have been there for a long...
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Wildlife in the Dunes
“Not that anyone lived far from anyone else on the frontier. Each settler was required to build his home within a half-mile radius of the meeting-house and then as close to others as possible....
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Things I Don’t Understand
We all have different experiences that influence our attitude toward something, but the fact is that the world’s most knowledgeable art experts would not disagree very much on which are the best...
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how could it hurt?
“If I am on fire, put me out. If you put me out by rolling me on the ground, do not let me roll down a hill. If I do roll down a hill and get stuck under some bushes, just leave me there; you’ve given...
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chop wood, carry water
An Die Musik (“To Music”) Oh gracious art, in how many gray hours when life’s fierce orbit ensnared me have you kindled my heart to warm love, carried me away into a better world? How often has a...
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Distorted Thinking, Miami
“You can’t pray a lie.” –Huck Finn Some unconfirmed facts about Miami, taken straight from my brain. 1. Suntanned officers conduct police business on jet skis. 2. Wealthy Cubans fled there to wait...
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“Now, Mrs. Queen, what is my name?” The queen said at first, “Are you called Jack?” “No,” answered he. “Are you called Harry?” she asked again. “No,” answered he. And then she said, “Then perhaps...
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SHRINK
In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still; In men whom men deem half divine I find so much of sin and blot; I hesitate to draw the line Between the two–where God has not. R.T....
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FM Radio: Weep in Public
“Then he showed me how to get back to the road. I came out to where everything was its own size and I had my song. I had the Binding Song. I choose that song because that’s what I seen most when I was...
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