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August 1, 2012February 23, 2019 - Fiction, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

Fifty Gestures of Love, in honor of William Gass.

25 now, 25 to follow, with many thanks 1) In The Odyssey, there’s Penelope’s more intimate test of this stranger…

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January 21, 2011February 23, 2019 - Books, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

Dante 2020-6: Tower, Tree, Candle, & the Triumph of the Fragile.

The Divine Comedy has its end, after 3X9 spirals rendered in 100 evenly distributed cantos, and it’s about time my…

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January 16, 2011February 23, 2019 - Books, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing

Dante 2020-3: Cleansing as Carnival, Tree as Anchor.

Twice in recent days, I’ve posted stages in a developing idea about Dante’s Divine Comedy.  The work is coming up…

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January 9, 2011January 9, 2011 - Uncategorized

Dante 2020, or How Does That Guy Get Away with a Fedora?

Struggling to deliver for BIG OTHER, I’ve kept coming back to the following, on Dante and his Divine Comedy. In…

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