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Dance, dance, evolution.
My father drove me to ballet classes for years, at Mrs. Stamps’ Ballet Academy. I stopped right after I started to learn to go up on point, before I got my own toe shoes. This mean that my parents suffered … Continue reading
Occupy the University
One of my students showed up at office hours to talk about the protests. She wanted to tell me about the general assembly. She wanted to know: Why did thousands of people turn out at Cal, and only hundreds in Irvine? … Continue reading
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from Husband and Wife, a novel by Leah Stewart
But poetry was poetry. Inhalation. Exhalation. An irresistible tautology. Look at me how you look at me. And at last, the external world gave way to the internal one. I sat in that café and wrote. I wrote quickly, in … Continue reading
Maniac, or architecture client?
“Neutra writes about the architect being a kind of physician and about the special role of the house in what he calls the ‘development of an architecture attuned to biology’: The client of a domestic project sits with his wife… … Continue reading
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How A Sand Dune Is Like A Person
An analogy both comforting and ominous. Continue reading
West and South
“One difference between the West and the South, I came to realize in 1970, was this: in the South they remained convinced that they had bloodied their land with history. In California we did not believe that history bloody the … Continue reading
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from Marvelous Possessions
“In the trifling islands of art brutal power can be transformed into just authority, emptiness can be absorbed into desire, and loss can undergo a magical sea-change into infinite riches.” –Stephen Greenblatt
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