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The Desert City
Friday October 30, 2009
As I’ve noted before, I often struggle with writing, as I labor with the new life I’ve undertaken since leaving a fulltime job couple of years ago. I often feel in the wilderness, running forward in the dark, plagued by the bad dreams I’ve had since childhood. In the creative process, I sit for hours, unable to....
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A Lot Like You
Thursday October 29, 2009
Mankind’s basic urge is not want, as Marx might have it, or sex, as Freud would, but desire. That is the bedrock supposition of critic Rene Girard, and the desire he speaks of is not material or sensual, but mimetic. In other words, the defining impulse that drives existence, quickening the pulse and stirring the....
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Ponyo at the Parousia
Wednesday October 28, 2009
With my wife out of town and our two daughters in my hands for the rainy fall weekend, I managed to pull off a Saturday nap for both—not a small feat at their rest-resistant ages of five and a half and almost four—with the promise of an irresistible outing on the other side of sleep: a trip to the....
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No Backup Plan
Tuesday October 27, 2009
They arrive for regularly scheduled appointments and they arrive, distraught and hopeless, in the middle of the night, with no appointment at all. But their stories are remarkably the same. He’s a self-absorbed jerk. She’s aloof and distant, and she checked out emotionally a long time ago....
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Waiting on Hilarity
Monday October 26, 2009
I have a confession to make. The kind of confession that reveals you as someone who is more pathetic than depraved. I once had a profile on eharmony.com. And by “once,” I mean “recently,” and by “had,” I mean “waiting for my membership to end so that I can close the profile once and for all and forget that....
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