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Nathan
I have begun to understand German language TV commercials and now find them almost as annoying as English language ones. Ka has the TV on in the bedroom now. We are lying in bed and... More »
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A couple months ago in the mountainous center of Austria I attended a conference and trade fair on shamanism. One day, members of a local club devoted to birds of prey showed up, dressed in... More »
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Sanded a small floor with a big sander, warped pine boards from 100 years ago, the servant's room.
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(I didn't write this one, one of my students did. Franco Zecchin, from Italy, lives outside Vienna and works in marketing. He gave me permission to post it here. If his spelling or grammar don't... More »
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I dreamt it was Holocaust Remembrance Night in Austria. I was walking on a grassy slope in the dark, when into view came a cluster of about forty helium balloons, some gray and some black,... More »
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They buried Waldheim today. There was one Jew at the funeral: The one up on the cross.
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Vienna, June 16, 2007 Kurt Waldheim--former Secretary General of the United Nations, former President of Austria, former First Lieutenant in the German Wehrmacht--died two days ago. His picture is in all the newspapers, and the... More »
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Yesterday Ronnie took Jill and Christine and me to the Rossau Cemetery, the oldest Jewish Cemetery in Vienna. It was way out in the Ninth District. We took the D streetcar towards Nussdorf past Freud's... More »
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6:18 a.m., the sun hasn't yet risen on the dead and the living here, two red apples, black coffee, no milk, cream in the fridge is spoiled, cats roar, cars glide outside, knuckles hurt, mind... More »
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The following piece is pasted in from http://www.nataliedarbeloff.com/blaugustine.html. It's an extended comment I posted there, my reaction to one of Natalie's posts on the theme of ordinary or humdrum days. I'm in awe of Natalie's... More »
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