To write you do not in fact have to “be passionate” or some such thing and in fact I prefer not to be — I greatly prefer calm. I think that the idea that “if you were interested enough, you would overcome anything” is a version of the artist-in-a-garret ideal. You have to feel well … More Un aliado
…por decirlo así; dulces y tristes son y huele todo a pasado y a cosas que no volverán. I keep seeing things more clearly. Getting unmoored. (That is a good image.) Using all my resources to attack and destroy the person I had been while still attempting to function as that person, as was required. … More Últimas tardes con Teresa
To write one needs money and a room of one’s own, it is said, but I say one needs access to self, a clean and well lit space (or an otherwise adequately comfortable one), and peace of mind. Without these things no methodologies apply — even those which do otherwise, like Archambeau’s. Today’s reading indicates … More Virginia Woolf
…still tired of being that person who withdrew from life because of being told she did not deserve it or was not qualified for it. Withdrawing from a career was one thing, but I had wanted to move on. It is so strange that we are held to decisions we made at 20. I would … More Retraite
Some of the things thought and said recently — “They had to hide their mental illness from the children because if they had admitted to it, they would have become responsible for it.” My dream about the mice and the falcons, Frida Kahlo’s house and El Escorial. A dream that seemed to be an oblique … More Lua nova
Here we have some interesting information about the composer in question, background on the film, and so on. Axé.
These comments would have applied to Reeducation: “situation too large and acute for you to handle alone” (Reeducation arrasait tout) “you can’t spend all your energy on this” (Reeducation demanded all energy) “you don’t want the situation to spiral” (Reeducation pushed to downward spiral) And then there is this post, on reassurance, which I like. … More El reposo caliente aún de ser
I am still thinking about this, and then there is this. Both lead to the ideas posts I have been thinking about writing, one on the dismantling of depression (which I claim is actually oppression) and another on the question of terror. I seem to resemble Samizdat in lots of ways but one important difference … More La vie et la jeunesse
Mr. Troell, who is about to turn 83, has vivid personal memories of the war years. See it. Axé.
He had an affair with the woman living across the street from his family in Stgo. de Chuco, who was the former “wife” of a priest. Poems like “Verano” are about her. He lost her to Carlos Santa María … all of this was in 1915 but I wonder whether it contributes to the events … More Some gossip about Vallejo
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