Tag Archives: The Brothers Karamazov

excerpt from something that may become something else

I don’t’ seem to get out much these days, but the nice part about never going anywhere is that when you actually do go out somewhere, people are always so surprised to see you. which leads me to wonder if … Continue reading

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Room Number 7

i just returned home from my first piano lesson since the one lesson i took at the age of 8.       in Room 7 at the Old Town School of Folk Music. the teacher, a former punk rocker, … Continue reading

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strategies for vanquishing numbness, part 1

entrench yourself in memories of friends lost or forgotten eat yogurt finish the final 90 pages of The Brothers Karamazov lose money from your pockets as you emerge from the subway and then gaze in wonder as a stranger hands … Continue reading

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the explanation

i believe i have entered my third trimester of reading The Brothers Karamazov, reading only a few pages each day on the train to and from work. sometimes the bus. and i’m not at all self conscious about it. not … Continue reading

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2006

an interesting evening so far of reading The Grand Inquisitor section of The Brothers Karamazov, watching episodes of The Office on Netflix,  window-shopping on OkCupid, listening to Iranian pop music from the ’70s… and a classical radio station from Venice; … Continue reading

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