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The Secret Undertown Ministry
“FROM THE DARKNESS, A VOICE SINGS OUT: I disagree, I disagree – I cannot understand at all; Which doesn’t mean I cannot understand it if I tried to understand it but I cannot stand to stand and understand it when … Continue reading
On Reading Benjamin Franklin
To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin, I find that on the whole my life has been “felicitous” enough to suggest that I would, if given the opportunity, live it again exactly as it has been to again reach its current point – … Continue reading
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Tagged autobiography, Benjamin Franklin, Julian Jaynes, memoirs, My Life Around Art, subjectivity
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Preamble to a Dream
The past is but a dream, a dream: a palimpsest where writ, the scene fades in and out of nothing, fast; seems permanent, but cannot last beyond the span of just one breath. Each life begins and ends in death, … Continue reading
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Tagged autobiography, dystopian fiction, memoirs, My Life Around Art, utopia
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Music and me
There are those who imagine “magical” places like they are scenes from the “happily ever after” part of a fairy tale: in a strange twist, they believe the hereafter, the great beyond, and the future tense of once upon a … Continue reading
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Tagged autobiography, biography, language, memoirs, music, transformation
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