[“One of the main functions of a diary is to be read furtively by other people.” – Susan Sontag] I merely hint at certain – actions, by saying “this time, again, with him...” or “afternoon, late coming home because...” knowing this will drive you, as you find and secretly read my diary, intensely mad, to your extreme and painful joy. <END> Buy it on Amazon: Everything Wants to Happen, the first thousand Memorable Fancies from this blog, revised and updated. … [Read more...]
“Diary” / Memorable Fancies #543
9 December, 2013 by Leave a Comment
In a used-book store, Alison found an old one-page-a-day diary. Aside from the name “Thomas” on the inside cover, the entire book was blank. Each page, however, judging from scuffs and stains, had been thumbed, examined, perhaps almost written on. Who had pored over each page, thought what to write, but turned to the next instead, saying “Maybe tomorrow…”? Who was this in whose life nothing had happened for an entire year? A blessed one indeed, Alison thought. How I envy … [Read more...]
“Tomorrow’s Diary” / A Memorable Fancy #205
8 January, 2013 by Leave a Comment
You can buy an app that foretells the future – your future – what you would write in your diary the next day, if you kept one. Many have called it a fraud or a hoax: like a fortune cookie, its predictions are vague. Like a Greek oracle, they can be misunderstood, or are perhaps intended to be misunderstood. Nonetheless, millions of people have bought the app and look ahead every day. Sometimes the screen is blank; always it is cryptic. I click the icon with dread, afraid of what I might … [Read more...]
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