I’m going to get rid of my name. Why? So the government can’t find me. But then your relatives won’t be able to find you, either. So? What’s your point? [Book ad: The year’s hottest new TV series is a reenactment of a famous murder trial ... but was there more involved than murder? A plot to take over the U.S. government? Read Try Try Again.] … [Read more...]
“‘Who are you'” / Memorable Fancies #1549
25 May, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Who are you? My name is – No, not your name. Who are you? My name is – No, who are you? (louder) MY NAME IS JOHN STEVENSON Who would you be if you didn’t have a name? (blank stare) Right... … [Read more...]
“Who Am I?” / Memorable Fancies #1208
13 April, 2016 by Leave a Comment
He turns to look at the waves just now breaking on the shore. Yes, he thinks, the scene is just like that famous painting. And he himself could pass for the man in the painting who’s admiring the shore, just now having turned to look at. Or the painter who’d painted moving water, stilling the breaking wave. Or a museum visitor, staring at the painting on the wall. Yes, he thinks, he’s always had that small problem of knowing who he was, which of his many persons he could be that day... … [Read more...]
“Upon Reflection,…” / Memorable Fancies #1453
29 January, 2016 by Leave a Comment
[“The mirror is not the place to observe yourself.” – Henri Michaux] The mirrors have conspired to show us not ourselves, but strangers. Deep inside our minds, we all know that. <END> Buy it at amazon.com/author/terencekuch: For Anacreon, 30 poems of love and life from the ancient Greek poet (originally published as a chapbook by Silkworms Ink). … [Read more...]
“I Saw You Everywhere” / Memorable Fancies #1439
15 January, 2016 by Leave a Comment
[“At first, I saw you everywhere.” – Louise Glück] But those others weren’t you. Finally I realized that you weren’t you, either. <END> Buy it at amazon.com/author/terencekuch: For Anacreon, 30 poems of love and life from the ancient Greek poet (originally published as a chapbook by Silkworms Ink). … [Read more...]
“Do you want to be anyone else?” / Memorable Fancies #1358
26 October, 2015 by Leave a Comment
[“Do you want to be anyone else?” – Jean Baudrillard] Some answers are: .. No, I want to be everyone else. .. No, I’d like to be me, ... please? Just this once? .. Yes. I’d like to be Ralph Kargen of Otta, Nebraska. He’s a fictional character who gets sucked into a hole in the ground one day by an evil being and that sounds like the most exciting thing that ever happened in Nebraska. .. Yes. I’d like to be one of those movie characters who keeps coming back in sequel after sequel … [Read more...]
“Who Are You?” / Memorable Fancies #1350
18 October, 2015 by Leave a Comment
[“How can it not know what it is?” – Blade Runner] I’ve overheard them telling each other that I don’t know who I am. That I’m not “authentic.” But I do know. I’m not an authentic of anything they recognize, true; but I’m an authentic me. <END> Buy it at amazon.com/author/terencekuch: At All Adventure, a Maltheist gospel. … [Read more...]
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