Reading:

• The Fever by Wallace Shawn.
• War and The Iliad by Simone Weil and Rachel Bespaloff
• The Origins of the Fifth Amendment by Leonard W. Levy
• Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia
• The Collected Poems of Robert Lowell by Robert Lowell
  

A number of key works, including the above listed, are starting to catalyze some profound movements hereabouts. It's making me feel lighthearted and hopeful, in a determined and seriously sober way.

I remember a moment back in high school, when I was a sophomore and it was one of those afternoons when it had just rained something torrential, but then the sun came out and all of Portland was a freshly discovered and shining city from some French Impressionist painting, all shimmering and blooming, and this incredibly voluptuously beautiful girl I had a crush on was standing on my toes, because she didin't want to get her feet wet on the shining pavement.

I feel kind of like that right now. But in a platonic way.

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