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The Alarm DECLARATION

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Mike Peters (1959-2025)

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JOHN STEINBECK Travels With Charley: In Search of America

A number of years ago I had some experience with being alone. For two succeeding years I was alone each winter for eight months at a stretch in the Sierra Nevada mountains on Lake Tahoe. I was the caretaker on a summer estate during the winter months when it was snowed in. And I made some observations then. As time went on I found that my reactions thickened. Ordinarily I am a whistler. I stopped whistling. I stopped conversing with my dogs, and I believe that the subtleties of feeling began to disappear until finally I was on a pleasure-pain basis. Then it occurred to me that the delicate shades of feeling, of reaction, are the result of communication, and without such communication they tend to disappear. A man with nothing to say has no words. Can its reverse be true- a man who has no one to say anything to has no words as he has no need for words?

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Daily Painting

Tim Breuer SEVENTH HEAVEN (2022)

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Reading

Lili Taylor TURNING TO BIRDS - THE POWER AND BEAUTY OF NOTICING

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Whenever anyone asks, "So what happened to America?"

What happened to America? Americans. That's what happened.

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Playing

Nicola Porpora ORLANDO (Angelica e Medoro)

Juan Bautista Otero

Robert Expert, Betsabée Haas, Olga Pitarch

Real Compañía Ópera de Cámara

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FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Notes from Underground

The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.

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Daily Painting

David White-Crain 2010-0066 (2010)

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Kevin Kallaugher at The Economist.

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Playing

Thelonious Monk THELONIOUS ALONE IN SAN FRANCISCO

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JULES BARBEY D'AUREVILLY Les Diaboliques

They had finished their lives before their death – which is not always the end of life and often comes long before the end.

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JAMES JOYCE "The Dead"

One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. He thought of how she who lay beside him had locked in her heart for so many years that image of her lover’s eyes when he had told her that he did not wish to live.

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Daily Painting

Seiko CROW AND ORANGE SKY (1890s)

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Watching LEGEND OF THE MOUNTAIN [山中传奇] King Hu Taiwan-Hong Kong, 1979

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Tick-tock, MAGAts.

Tick-tock.

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Playing

Tan Dun BUDDHA PASSION

Tan Dun

Shenyang, Huiling Zhu, Chuanyue Wang, Sen Guo, Weiwei Tan, Batubagen, Yining Chen

Internationale Chorakaemie, Orchestre National De Lyon