FROM SEQUENCE 3 September 2001 Tiens, voilà une baffe. Maintenant tu sais pourquoi tu pleures,” more than one exasperated French mother has been known to say, as she slaps her whining child. “Here, now you’ve been slapped and know why… Read More ›
Month: July 2012
On Playing and Missing (Now with an Afterword)
FROM SEQUENCE 2012 July 2012 Outside my apartment building are several basketball courts to which many men in their twenties come to play. Passing by, seeing the play, I have been struck by how often these men fail to get… Read More ›
Where are our dreams?
FROM SEQUENCE 2012 July 2012 Five notes stemming from the collapse of the Soviet Union 1. In June 2012 my son and I spent ten days in Moscow and visiting Yasnaya Polyana, Tolstoy’s estate about one hundred miles to the… Read More ›
Pedestrian Approaches to Life and Death (Ghosts Included)
FROM SEQUENCE 2012 May 2012 In crossing a street one might look both ways, or — a popular New York approach — simply step into the street or indeed start crossing it, leaving it for others, oncoming drivers included, to… Read More ›
