Monthly Archives: February 2007

THE NECESSITY FOR BEING ALONE

It’s hard for someone who’s not a writer of fiction to understand why it’s necessary to be absolutely shut off from human contact while writing. Let’s explore this for a moment. The writer’s fictive world – that which exists in … Continue reading

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JOTTINGS IN THE MIDST OF WINTER

What is it about winter in New York that brings out bad manners? A waitress in a restaurant at 68th and Broadway leans against the banister and picks her nose, in full view of customers finishing their dinner. A student … Continue reading

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CENTRIFUGAL VS. CINTRIPETAL: WHICH ONE WILL RULE?

The presiding metaphor of the twentieth century was an event that happened in its middle: splitting the atom. Fragmentation, crumbling, anomie. Splitting apart, radiating outward from a center. But what center? Early in the century, Yeats said it: “. . … Continue reading

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FURTHER ERUPTIONS OF MY PERSONAL ID

I suddenly realized that I had referred in my last blog entry (my first blog entry) to More About Jim and — since that was the first and only entry — there was no More About Jim or Further Biographical … Continue reading

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IN THE BEGINNING WAS . . . . THE ONSET OF TODAY’S STORY

Welcome! Bienvenidos! Dobro pozhalovat’! Well, that exhausts my languages, so I’d better move on to something else. This moment is very exciting to me. Why? Did I always dream of having a blog? Not exactly. Share this post:

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