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Tuesday, July 19, 2016

The long view and a bit of Faulkner.

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Years ago when I was a young almost-man, I studied to be a professor of English literature. But as I was completing my course of study, I al...

Monday, July 18, 2016

Bombings. Murder. Entropy.

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Just about every weekend, my wife and I pile into our restored 1966 Simca 1600 and drive up to a beach in Westchester where Whiskey, our fo...

Friday, July 15, 2016

On a dark and sunny Friday.

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This is one of those mornings, and there have been more and more of them lately, where I am finding it hard to write. Maybe it's beca...

Thursday, July 14, 2016

A strange night in the Tempus Fugit. (A repost.)

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A lumpy old man was sitting at the bar as I entered the Tempus Fugit. He wore a fedora, without irony, a rumpled grey suit, and an off-whit...

Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Continued: A long night in the Mexican League.

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CONTINUED FROM YESTERDAY... “We had a pitcher though, that is what I want to tell you about. Ignacio Hernandez….” “Ignacio Hernande...

Tuesday, July 12, 2016

A long night in the Mexican League.

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Though I was just a few months past 17 years old when I played ball down in the Mexican Baseball League in the long-ago summer of 1975, I h...

Monday, July 11, 2016

Pablo Neruda on the Far West Side.

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On Friday evening I waited on the corner of 46th and 11th Avenue for a car to take me home. I noticed on the side of the truck parked on ...

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