Category: Reminiscence
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Tonsils and the Forties
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At the end of W.W. II I was five and by the time of the Korean War I was ten. In that decade I was shaped and configured by my environment for the rest of my days. In the Forties I was most unaware of my self, impassive and passive,…
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Alice’s Restaurant
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…That once there was a wisp of glory called Camelot…Don’t let it be forgot That once there was a spot For one brief shining moment that was known As Camelot Director Arthur Penn had the prescience to make a film about the Sixties, Alice’s Restaurant, and in this instance, the waning…
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The Wound
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Sometime during the day, at odd and peculiar moments, I experience memories and reminiscences. I associate to the old blinds with “pulls.” As I pull down the blind one more day is gone. And in the morning I raise the blind as if I have another day given to me as…