A blank page is put before you. Design it, someone tells you. You’ve been mistaken for an architect. You protest. I am a writer. I write things on blank surfaces–a piece of paper, a computer screen . I don’t do designing. Sure you write on blank surfaces, but a surface, blank or not, is a […]
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Kafka + Coldplay 42 = Impossibility of Dying
Ghosts are always unsure. That’s why they are ghosts: beings stuck in the spaces between worlds that, for all we know, are as many as there are stars. What of ghosts that try in vain to convince us that they are really dead? That is Kafka’s Hunter Gracchus. He died after a really bad fall […]
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