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Mending Time
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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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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