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Portrait of the artist as a performer
I was a boy wonder, and I loved to hate the guts of whoever was a killjoy. And mostly, any authority figures who were poorly paid teachers, so I was …
2 years, 4 months ago
Point Nemo
In my younger and starry-eyed years, like many other Jules Verne readers, I only knew Nemo as the daring and somewhat megalomaniacal captain of a sub…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Pact and The Dreamer
Had my fill of Karen Blixen for a long time. Because all the dramatizations I have watched this week about her are based on corny clichés, masquerade…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Pact
Had my fill of Karen Blixen for a long time. Because all the dramatizations I have watched this week about her are based on corny clichés, masquerade…
2 years, 4 months ago
Wisdom Art
There was a long-past era when I used to rely on my shameless sex addiction to keep me feeling creative, lively, and protected from more harmful addi…
2 years, 4 months ago
Up Close & Personal
For the last two months, I haven’t cut any podcasts. Oh, wait! A clarification is needed. Some people still think this is another newsletter, but if …
2 years, 5 months ago
Frilly
I have a confession to make. A friend of mine who still lives in Lausanne taught me a long time ago the only attractive thing about the internet, som…
2 years, 7 months ago
Joseph Roth, Igor Stravinsky, and Rutger Hauer.
Writing is all about juggling two completely different ideas like when you’re on deck back-stitching a broken sail that the wind tore apart while you…
2 years, 7 months ago
Uncut Book
Lucas Folch took at random a book from the stack of copies, placed by reflex the reading glasses at the top of the nose, and without noticing it, beg…
2 years, 7 months ago
Offensiphobia and the Destroying Angel
During the past week, I have learned how to drive on Substack without fear, as I did one summer on the narrow paths of the island of Majorca while ta…
2 years, 8 months ago