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Dear Fellow Introverts
<< All Americans are introverts. >> — W. H. Auden, late in 1939. He had arrived on these shores in January of that year. — DL
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Freud Quiz # 4
Freud came up with great titles, which poets like to steal, and the best of these is (a) The Interpretation of Dreams (b) Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious (c) Civilization and Its…
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Freud says. . .
A definitive example of the spontaneous aphorism: "One is irresistibly reminded of an incident in the French Chamber when capital punishment was being debated. A member had been passionately supporting its abolition and his…
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I Slept On The Couch Last Night [by Michael Quattrone]
Not to worry—my wife slept on the couch, too. We both sleep on the couch every night, because the two bedrooms in our converted one bedroom apartment are full of children. Our three-year-old daughter…
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Second of two posts: the political one. by Sarah Manguso
Within our lifetime, sex education curricula other than abstinence, birth control methods other than pulling and praying, coital arrangements other than vaginal penetration of a white Christian wife by a white Christian husband, and…
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First of two posts: the literary one. by Sarah Manguso
In the bathroom (relatively clean; thank you, Jenny) of this week’s house-sit: a recent anthology of love poems "from the sixteenth century to the present day." The book contains my third-favorite Keats poem, "Bright…
