Anne Carson

… until my middle name is excess …              P.J. Harvey

That should be enough. Start here.

We go to Dave’s cottage. To go is happy.

Big waves on the lake and thunderstorms predicted.

I will sit on the porch and try to think.

Prepare for thinking (in the car as we go)

by reading a book...

1. Albertine, the name, is not a common name for a girl in France, although Albert is widespread for a boy.

2. Albertine’s name occurs 2363 times in Proust’s novel, more than any other character.

3. Albertine herself is present or mentioned on 807 pages of Proust’s novel.

4. On a good 19 per cent of these pages she is asleep.

5. Albertine is believed by some critics, including...

for Wally and Deborah and Larry and André

Go to the Wally Shawn play, it is hopeless, I mean production impeccable, philosophy hopeless. Yet it gives me hope! Figure this out. Next day listening to Sam Cooke what comes to me in a dawn café is:no need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light. Order a tofu burrito. C. comes in looking lively. He got to the car just as the...

9.4. They put stones in their eye sockets. Upper-class people put precious stones. 16.2. Prior to the movement and following the movement, stillness. 8.0. Not sleeping made the Cycladic people gradually more and more brittle. Their legs broke off. 1.0. The Cycladic was a neolithic culture based on emmer wheat, wild barley, sheep, pigs and tuna speared from small boats. 11.4. Left hand on...