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Strange to think of finding time. Of time needing to be found, perhaps hiding in plain sight, or hiding out, time in hiding. But time foxy, eluding its pursuers, those hunters of time, blowing their bugles, hounds baying, closing in. Time down to its last, out of luck,
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“Adventure in itself does not exist,” and dwells only “in the mind of the one who pursues it.” Writing from his Montmarte perch in early twentieth-century Paris, Pierre Mac Orlan (1882-1970)’s take on “adventure” —and on most any other thing involving human beings— is somehow…
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Margo Cilker opens for the Drive-By Truckers
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A-change-of-pace for Dispatches on this snowy, late January day in Detroit. A drawing and (its) short video (5:57)! This one launches into the aether on the eve of my students’ first writing assignments of the semester, and I wondered if you might be amused.
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What matters is when the buffet breakfast opens. At the Hotel Presidente (in downtown San José, Costa Rica), that’s 06:00. A family of four shift from…
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I FIRST READ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra’s Exemplary Novels (1613) in their original Spanish over three decades ago. Thanks to Sebastián de…
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play The Velvet Olive . . .
twelve photographs, two watercolours
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There was a six-year span earlier in my life when much of what seemed significant happened inside, or within a few blocks of a cinema. The Princess…
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ten photographs and a few watercolours
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(over the course of "Better Call Saul" [2015-2022])
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