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Today in a cafe two small incidents seemed to me to illustrate the forms of self-involvement that are more common to women, and to men.A man walked in and ordered a coffee at the counter. ...read more
My stomach feels like a shrivelled bulb after two martinis, no dinner. Whoever invented alcohol is my god: right now, my god. The last time I had one of those (a martini, a god) was ...read more
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Last night I went out for jazz and at the bar a man nibbling on the rim of his beer said thoughtfully, You are doing such a great job tonight. I said, Thanks! Then: Great ...read more
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Yesterday I was at my friend's place after a thunderstorm and she had a little curving highway of ants running up over her wall, so tiny they looked like caterpillar's eyelashes, and I said look! ...read more
I was lying on my bed reading in the stifling heat today and a cane toad went hopping past my door. I found him in the hallway looking inscrutably lumpy, there followed a prolonged episode ...read more
At rehearsal with a Ghanaian band for whom it is imperative to have two different drummers side by side. There are three brass horn players and I have counted four different patterns of stenciled colour ...read more
Imagine that. Imagine claiming a whole vast and fast continent was empty, naming it Terra Nullius. The land of nothing. Imagine thinking you could fill it up with people you had no use for, people ...read more
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For weeks after the diagnosis I was still having episodes of shock as deep as flashbacks, every single day. Every day at some point I went into a dazzled fugue of confusion and horror, while ...read more
