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Dreams

  • What do Europeans dream about?

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    A new book by Wolfram Lotz could have the key to a shared European unconscious. « Now I will show you what it’s like to live without god. »

  • The political life of dreams

    The political life of dreams

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    « Dreams could show an internalization of oppression just as easily as a resistance to oppression — which would mean a dream isn’t so free a realm after all. »

  • The coldest, cleanest water in Europe

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    Solitary sailing, and the philosophy thereof: What sort of writing is possible when the mind is at sea and so entirely occupied and swaddled?

  • « Everything starts with fire » — Interview with Hélène Cixous

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    « The smell was like the sharp notes of a trumpet, a sort of rat-tat-tat like a burst of gunfire, a bombardment. »

  • Trouble at work and home while my son is abroad

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    A story about living. « I have a family and I have a job and I have a teaching gig, and these things have me. »

  • Europe disenchanted

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    A broad cast of characters who almost all speak to a solitary woe. This is Europe?

  • An archeology of the air

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    On Havelok the Dane, medieval air & the world’s largest wind farm

  • Of Anders & Kreuzwendedich

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    On two tales of racial metamorphosis, salted or sugared, one hundred years apart.

  • A breast is a breast is a breast

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    To contemplate Pompeii is to contemplate archeology in its most extreme form, framed by the wish not only for discovery, but for resurrection.

  • Stupid illnesses called « childhood »

    Stupid illnesses called « childhood »

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    An excerpt from I padri lontani / Distant Fathers (1987), the rediscovered memoir of Marina Jarre, available in English translation from New Vessel Press.