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Have y’all seen any good movies lately?

JF: I saw Minimalists last night. Not successful but in some odd way quite ambitious (and probably easy to lampoon) Reminds me how hard it is to do a simple romantic film in 2025.

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This is why I didn't follow them. It was quite obviously not what it billed itself to be.

I won't be promoting anything from it at any rate.

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Tuesday, February 28, 2017 

Realizing I had not yet gotten a copy of the book for tonight’s class I head out.  Beautiful day, so I prefer to take the bus up to the Columbia area.  The store is just down the street from Tom’s, the diner used in Seinfeld.  (Just inside is that famous Kramer portrait.)  In front of the bookstore (formerly Labyrinth, now Book Culture) are shiny hardbacks, on a cart, marked down.  I resist browsing.  Right away find tonight’s book.  Begin reading it on the bus coming back downtown to my neighborhood. 

Our President is giving a speech tonight.  He says he not attend the annual press roast, whenever that is.  One thinks of what LBJ said about it.  (This by way of Russell Baker.)  Someone said something like, “Come on, Lyndon.  It will be fun.”  Johnson, at the though of hearing jokes about himself, recoiled and said, “It sounds like about as much fun as throwing shit at the village idiot.” 

As the afternoon passes, little by little, I read the book.  “The Story of My Teeth.” It is quite  Latin and unremarkable but,  at good moments,  reminds me a bit of Borges. 

Evening.  At class I see a number of old friends.  The author is Valeria Luiselli.  The book is translated from the Spanish but she speaks fluent English.  I don’t get much out of her book.

Though rain was predicted the weather is quite nice when class breaks up.  At home I turn on the President’s speech.  My phone rings.  It’s Jim Thoma.  He is in St Louis, caring for his father.  He is a great son.  (I am, lately, realizing what a great son I have.)

This time Our President is making an effort to be more human, less bullying.  Maybe he has new writers.  In honoring the Navy SEAL who was killed on an ill-fated mission he embarrasses all of humanity by reading teleprompter words written for him.  “His name is etched in eternity.”  Or, something like that.  You know Trump is just reading and doesn’t believe a word of it.  Cameras then swing to shot of the deceased’s grieving wife.  It is all too awful. 

Note: Stanislaw Skrowaczewski died.  93.  He was making recordings in his mid eighties. Quite interesting little description in the obit about his escape to the West, with just his wife and a couple of suitcases. 

Odd dream. I have a apartment big enough to fit a small band.  I let them rehearse here but the result is not good.  They bring their girlfriends and drink beer and do odd things, like hiding out in the bedroom and locking the door.  I start ranting (and, as usual, in a dream, cannot find my voice and am strangled with rage).  I try to tell them I was so supportive of them, but no more and that they have to leave.  This they do, with their women, trailing mischievous giggles.

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Să uite. Straniu cuvânt, se gândi el. Populat cu fantome, plin de groază şi comod ca o pernă! Cine-ar putea trăi fără să uite? Dar cine oare poate să uite îndeajuns? Cenuşa amintirii zace în adâncul inimii fiecăruia. Numai atunci când nu mai ai pentru ce trăi, poţi fi liber.

Arcul de triumf - Erich Maria Remarque

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Nu zic ca as fi facut orice pentru tine , spun ca daca ai fi avut un accident si ai fi fost ranit grav , stand in coma luni , poate chiar ani , eu as fi fost cea pe care o vezi prima data langa patul de spital ... pentru ca as fi fost acolo zilnic luni , poate chiar ani .

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