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I’ve amped up my hunger for vengeance

I finished The Count of Monte Cristo — oddly at the exact moment he and his ploys finished off all his enemies. This was good. So what now? A need for bloody violence was roiling in my gut and precisely … Continue reading

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The eternal mystery which carries me through the days

The New York Times’s obit for pianist Radu Lupu, sent me back to adolescence and a  conversation with my mother. She had been considering what careers might suit her oldest child. (Sorry, Mom, for putting this into parentheses, but years … Continue reading

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