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I have just watched Heaven’s Gate  as an act of curiosity, having it praised as a kind of masterpiece even with its tattered history of a fiasco by a friend. Lots of movies did not get their just due until years after their making — The Magnificent Ambersons comes to…

As usual I dated the first page (April 1,2013), an historical thing with me as I have always dated new work since I began writing more than four decades ago. I wrote in spurts with several days between new writing and this was not my usual way which is to…

I went to Starbucks Sunday because I had an attack of spilkes. I ordered a cappacino grande and a piece of cinnamon cake most of which I threw away because I had to begin fasting for a blood test tomorrow, my semi-annual anxiety trip. In addition to which my physician…

I finished reading Vernon’s Star in the East, probably the best survey in recent years of the life of the religious philosopher Krishnamurti. As you may or may not know, I’ve been reading books by and about Krishnamurti since 1975. I retreat to the “master” every now and then to…