Here we are again! The summer drags, kicking and screaming, to its close; I once again have only the worst tan lines; the kiddos are going back to school.
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Summer reading, you say? More like, “The second hellish summer we have endured while in an active pandemic, under an ineffectual national government and a malignantly stupid state government, now with an even greater likelihood of heat stroke due to accelerating climate change,” am I right?
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This round-up is late because I knew I had read an absolutely unreasonable number of books this year, and certainly in the period covered by this round-up, and show few signs of slowing
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We attempt to communicate something, to elicit some feeling, from the people who perceive our art, and we, perceiving, respond somehow — or don’t, which suggests that perhaps that artwork does not speak to us or for us or in our language. (This will come back to haunt us.)
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it’s 2021; we’re locked in now, and it already feels like it’s been a full year since 1 January. Needless to say, this has been a lot to deal with, and I have been taking refuge, once again, in the written word.
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