Category: existentialism
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On Baseball
I first started watching baseball in Los Angeles, at the behest of the man I was married to at the time. In an attempt to cultivate shared interests, with the understanding that beer and hot dogs were a part of the ritual, I obliged, assuming that those would be the extent of pleasure I would…
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Hello Again, San Francisco
Inspired by “Goodbye to All That” By Joan Didion Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft. These words by Baz Luhrman, much quoted in essays, speeches, and elegies about New York, have not, to my knowledge, been…
