Category: destiny/destination
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Since starting To the Lighthouse I’d been noticing all kinds of references to subjects and objects, which was prompted chiefly by this passage: Whenever she [Lily] “thought of his [Mr.… more ›
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Happy Bloomsday! It’s a greeting I thought I’d never say. But here we are: June 16. I’m wearing a fucking boater and heading to my first Bloomsday celebration. All because… more ›
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My most recent fantasy: live part-time in Havana and start an English-language walking tour, modeled after Brendan’s Isherwood’s Neighborhood tour in Berlin, retracing the sites and scenes of Reinaldo Arenas’… more ›
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Maybe she had asked the question before; maybe she’d forgotten my rambling answer. I vaguely remember, perhaps, that we’d had this conversation sitting, no less, at a coffee shop in… more ›
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In his Ecce Homo Nietzsche defines his term immoralist (“Why I Am a Destiny” §4, trans Walter Kaufmann). In this one term lies two negations: the negation of the type of person who… more ›
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Below are some of my photos from a recent trip to Rome. This collection is of architectural ruins and art/historical objects that I found compelling. Colosseo I Colosseo II Bernini’s… more ›
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Instead of fighting against inevitable conflicts, I am choosing to allow my disorientation to orient my life these days. At least until I have some kind of better plan to… more ›
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Twenty-one years ago he was traveling by train from Warsaw to Szczecin with his friends in the Corps. It was late and after a bottle or two of Żubrówka. He wanted to doze,… more ›
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The letter was simply addressed: l’Étranger, Rue Perdu, Nevers. It contained an account of the war and of life before war. It slipped out of pocket, down sewers and over the… more ›