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Winter 2001
Dream of Lust
After one of those nights, a day: the mind dutiful, waking, putting on its slippers, and the spirit restive, muttering I’d rather, I’d rather— Where did it come from, so […]
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Spring 1981
“The Meeting at Telgte”: An Excerpt from the Novel
Translated from German. Grass’s novel is set in May, 1647, just before the signing of the treaties ending the Thirty Years’ War. To an imaginary meeting at Telgte, a […]
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Winter 1980
Piano Practice
for Mark Strand April, in another fortnight, metropolitan April. Light rain-gauze across the museum’s entrance, like their eyes when they leave you, equivocating Spring! The sun dries the avenue’s […]
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Summer 1979
A Piece of Monologue
Curtain. Faint diffuse light. Speaker stands well off centre downstage audience left. White hair, white nightgown, white socks. Two metres to his left, same level, same height, standard lamp, skull-sized […]
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Summer 1967
On the Escarpment
It was really summer, but the rain had fallen all day and was still falling. The weather can best be described by saying it was the kind reserved for church […]
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Summer 1964
The Baker’s Story
Look at me. Black as the ace of spades, and ugly to match. Nobody looking at me would believe they looking at one of the richest men in this city […]
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Winter 1964
One Whole Year, and Even More
I was waiting for Iscott in the foyer of the savoy yesterday when the two of them started nattering next to me. “This one’s a Swede—we wouldn’t take an Italian […]
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Spring 1963
One off the Short List
When he had first seen Barbara Coles, some years before, he only noticed her because someone said: “That’s Johnson’s new girl.” He certainly had not used of her the private […]
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