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“Racine or Donne looked into much more than the heart. One must look into the cerebral cortex, the nervous system, or the digestive tract.� - T. S. Eliot ... more

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But she has been there before, has a suite in fact, where she can swan and collapse on a series of fainting couches: velveteen, plush, gem-colored. In 1913, during the production of A Good Little Devil, Lillian collapsed from anemia. She took delight in suffering for art. Although not a religious man, Sartre was fascinated by suffering as well, said Hell is other people and meant it. Some like to suffer and some try to eliminate desire. Buddha, God bless him, had a great idea: whatever is subje... more

Sometimes in the rough garden of city spaces where I believe a mugger will not approach me because so far no mugger has approached me I stop to take breath. The city exists by acts of faith that we and our children are safe, that the pounding wheels of cars will miss them, that the traffic will stop when the lights turn, that parks will stay green, that money is not everything, that the lime trees that line our streets are lopped and cropped with the best of intentions, that the orange glow of... more