My French paperback translation of Bakakai has Magritte’s Golconde on the cover — rain imagined as men in bowler hats descending from a blue sky…..

(The farmer’s dying dog; the beetles on the beach, etc.) […….

As with the character earnestly, doubtfully questioning the dark — but quietly, in case no one is […….

We have in our heads images, fantasies, of others when we are appreciating music. We want to put it out there for […….

G. writes in Ferdydurke of the “metaphysical pain” of a fly with its legs pulled off in the bottom of a trashcan…..

This is an extreme example, but it reminds me of the zone of “sub-culture” revealed by G. We all start out heroes, […….

If I were honest with myself, I’d admit that my biannual hypochondria ritual is […….

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People that (we think) shouldn’t matter to us, do. Being slighted or ignored […….