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I dreamt I was teaching English, and I posed a question that did not remain with me when I woke up; but the answer, collectively arrived at by the students and me, was “Dropping elephants... More »
I dreamt I was teaching English, and I posed a question that did not remain with me when I woke up; but the answer, collectively arrived at by the students and me, was “Dropping elephants... More »
Dreamt I went to the moon with some friends, just for a couple of hours, to pick strawberries, then came back.
The other evening I was reading some of Walt Whitman's prose works from the 1860s, and that period of time in US history seemed vividly alive in my imagination, both oddly familiar and completely alien.... More »
I bought a prehistoric Russian mummy and put running shoes on it, then laid it down, for the time being, against the south wall of the living room in the house where I grew up.... More »
I dreamt it was Holocaust Remembrance Night in Austria. I was walking on a grassy slope in the dark, when into view came a cluster of about forty helium balloons, some gray and some black,... More »
sometimes i feel like my whole austrian life is a dream i'm having and at any moment i'll wake up in the united states and forget everything i've experienced here except a few images: subway... More »
That's Life An omelette of lemons. A suitcase of tricycles. A pocket of walruses. An enclave of Lithuanians in Iran. A pillowcase of echoes. A camera filled with photographs of oceans. That's life. What's life?... More »
A dream I had recently. I was going to fly to another country at night. In the airport, I realized I was carrying a knife I like a lot in my knapsack. I was upset... More »