Category: Culture
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Post Impressions of Vegas
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When I look into the street across the way and the rest of this decrepit neighborhood, I realize the gross differences between the two realities I have experienced as of late — here I feel kind of dirty and beaten down by the “neighbors” and the shabbiness of the blocks.…
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First Impressions of Las Vegas (The Meadows)
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Leaving in our car, it took us 7 hours to arrive in Henderson which lies in a valley. Having not traveled extensively in the Southwest I was taken by the harsh yet menacingly beautiful scarps of land, the desolation, the mountainous maw of it all, quite breathtaking, quite severe in…
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“Mourning Without Empathy Leads To Madness.” — Winicott
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I have been away working on a new book of short stories dealing with the Holocaust. In part because it demands much more of me as a person and writer. I have to dig deeper into myself and I like digging into myself. It is not painful — it is,…
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On La Dolce Vita and the Floater in My Eye
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It was 1960 and I saw La Dolce Vita for the first time; it was the only movie in my experience in which patrons got up and left their rows. The movie was complex to my mind. I didn’t get it, nor did I understand that Fellini was educating us…