Monthly Archives: June 2013

Mary Canary on her way to feed the pigeons.

True fact: My fellow citizens have outfitted me with the most fundamentally perfect disguise. They refuse to see me, and therefore they don’t see me. Except they do. Except they don’t want to. So they don’t, damnit!, no matter how … Continue reading

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Dig this shit: “The opposite of anarchy is warfare, and the war is on at Duffeeland Dog Park.”

“But think: Before one man owned the park and everyone valued it. Now everyone owns it and no one values it. Before a group of people who got along perfectly worked together joyously in pursuit of the values they shared … Continue reading

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“When you chase a kitten away, she never comes back to you.”

“But when you chase a kitten away, she comes back half as often, with half as much confidence and half as much enthusiasm. And with a fear she had never even known before. And if you cut her back again, … Continue reading

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A little bit of honey cake for Desdemona as she makes her last escape.

Yes, it’s definitely dead dog month around here. I am much informed by the storgic love of dogs for their people, and I am much informed by dogs as such. This sequence of ideas dates from four years ago today, … Continue reading

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Standing with my nose pointed west, waiting for the world to come to me.

Desdemona the Scrivener. As is obvious, she would prefer not to.I live on a five-hundred-year time line. I pay attention to day-to-day stuff, but I recognize how repetitive human issues are. I tend not to lend much thought to anything … Continue reading

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Why I read Ibsen.

It is common to play Hedda as a neurotic, but I think a more correct reading is that she is a troll, a sprite, a spark of hell’s fire seeking ready tinder on the Earth.I grew up in a grimy … Continue reading

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Redemption is egoism in action: My eBook “Janio at a Point” is yours free for the downloading.

Download a free eBook about the redemption of the ego – about Splendor.In February of 1988, I wrote a short book called Janio at a Point. It was written to be the epilogue of a much larger book, a 600-page … Continue reading

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Reflections of the irresistible by way of one drop in an ocean of love.

That’s my best-beloved, Cathleen Collins. She thinks I’m about to tease her. She’s right.I’ve been thinking lately about the idea of irresistibility — this, plausibly, because I get hot for all absolute states — when I blessed my argument with … Continue reading

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The song of the self.

You can choose the light or the darkness, or you can run from one to the other, wasting your life in a lather of dithering. But you cannot be alive as a human being and yet, somehow, choose not to … Continue reading

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Love and loyalty: Why I want for my dog to die in Sun City.

The sun-dappled dogs of Duffeeland…A Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie story “Your dog’s dying.” What do you say to that? When you have a wound that won’t heal, there is nothing quite like having someone tear it wide open — expecting you to … Continue reading

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Tease your lover by text — and drive the Feds crazy doing it.

“EF or FF?” Putting hot-sauce on hamburger, making an adventure of the mundane.Last week Uncle Willie wrote about the kinds of playful games loving married couples can carry out over years or decades. This I totally get. I am always … Continue reading

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