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Imagine David Lynch's town "Twin Peaks" transplanted to Brazil. Now imagine someone from that town living in London as a nomadic pet sitter.
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Online (opens the original)
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Standing on one of the chalets’ verandas, mountains all around and faithful cats at his feet: “I should film this and post it online.”Sweeping leaves down the path that led to the guesthouse’s main house, poems and prose cropping up: “I should weave this into an online piece.”Logging off from an evening book club, he could only conclude: “Everyone online must know what I think about this novel!”Dream fragments, quotes, Brazilian recipes, London memories, ghost tales or even complete fantasies: e
Comfort (opens the original)
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At 2:30 pm, he heated up two cups of water in the microwave then added two spoons of Nescafé, plus leftovers from the morning’s coffee thermos.He held out for – and could see – a big, wet sky from where he sat in the guesthouse’s reception, beyond his laptop and pages of creative revision. He owned that mountain but hadn’t been to its cloudbusting top for decades.Kate Bush’s “Hounds of Love” album accompanied his coffee; his mother and the cats took their afternoon nap; and the sun had finally c
Something for Myself (opens the original)
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Dear friends,It’s been 9 months since I started this epistolary series.The original intention was to explore this medium via Substack, hopefully create a community and also have an offering to those who wished to get a paid subscription (access to paywalled letters.)All letters are free from now on (unless there’s a very special reason why one of them should be paywalled). If there are any older paywalled entries you’d like to read, just let me know and I’ll give you access.Thank you to everyone
Staring into Crystal Lake (opens the original)
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This post contains graphic violence. Reader discretion is advised.And then the dream would begin again, a dream always identical, but with slight variations, like a theme with variations.- Giorgio de ChiricoCamp Crystal Lake, a once notorious summer camp for kids, was converted into a nice neighbourhood, with houses you could buy on sweet quiet streets that led towards a placid lake. All the neighbours got along. Some of them were young, some of them had families. Like the white young couple wit
The Staircase (opens the original)
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Every Sunday, once we’d waved goodbye to our last guests, I’d walk with mom down the guesthouse’s staircase to my brother’s home for lunch.Keeping the staircase clean was one of my responsibilities. A large cherry tree leaned over it and loved to drop its leaves and fruit.As I carefully led mom, she’d invariably say: ‘this staircase is so dirty. When we had a gardener, he’d keep this spotless. We need to speak to your brother about hiring someone.”That’s when I knew I must be a Zen master as NOT
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