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Writer’s Diary (opens the original)
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My schedule has been discombobulated by working on a writing commission late into the night, but spliced only with poker and Fernet for now. Last night, I went to the gym at 2:00 a.m. and woke up at 2:00 p.m. (feeling on the other side of something that I couldn’t say exactly what I’m on the other side of: the past six months, the past two years, the past six years. Draw the line where you may).I made coffee, I read a poem by Cesare Pavese, “Grappa in September,” in my dual translation Italian p
Writer’s Diary (opens the original)
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Everyone now is a network and not a person, and the consequences could not be more subtly extreme. The construction of new regimes of surveillance and control are not in themselves as disturbing as the radical truth that people have attached themselves to these systems and participate in their cruelest functions. There is no objective knowledge, but there are objective uses of power. An existential analytic of the present might state that it is very hard to be a subject, that we see ourselves in
Writer’s Diary (opens the original)
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Strange that all socializing now must have a lineup; having been around since the beginning of this whole thing, I might speculate that the ‘scene’ has just become a metaphor for urban life; all urba… Read more
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Thinking about Emerson’s essay “Compensation,” about how our lives and our fates are always balancing and rebalancing, always pulling energy and events around to create balance, and rather how our actions are always creating disruptions in the plan that fate has for us, or that God has for us, and that fate or God must adjust to. Free will comes into contact with cosmic will; our lives are what the collision produces. Read more
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A very simple idea. One is not better than or more deserving of anything more than the small, simple, good things that have always been constituent for humble, decent people. The acquisitive, the arrogant parts of oneself are pardonable, but only if they resign themselves before God. Nothing is better than loving someone, than babies, than dogs, than the song of birds, than the sunshine. Life is not at all complicated unless you insist on complication (it has taken me so long to learn this). But
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