Category: memoir
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Memoir: Eclipse (1973)
Then he picked up a pair of chunky Koss headphones. “And you really should prepare your head for these phones!”
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Memoir: Mom’s racist heritage (1990)
When I was 12, Mom had been pretty incapacitated for the last decade. We younger kids didn’t learn her prejudices until she got sober, her personality melting out of a frozen block of vodka. Turns out, she harbored some downright racist ideas. She held un-generous feelings towards African-Americans, sorting them all into two camps–the uneducated,…
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Memoir: A lineage of male violence (1976-77)
I wake profoundly shaken by this dream, cast down by its revelation, stumbling into the sudden nightmare of day dawning, and I, a virtual parricide.
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Memoir: Where babies come from (1968)
Even dogs, the noblest of creatures in my mind, were stained with the same mammalian taint of bestial inter-penetration. Oh, it was hard for a while to look at dogs, even my beloved Carin Terrier Marilyn, with respect.
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Memoir: Before I met you (pre 2012)
Before I met you, I didn’t know a dosa from a donut or a puja from a post office. Now I enjoy, admire, and even enact your Brahmin heritage with you, a privilege I never imagined possessing. Before I met you, I had grown accustomed and comfortable in my four walls. I’d sit indoors attenuated,…
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Memoir: The Ritz theater (1973)
Merely taking my place in the ticket line, I wasn’t some punk kid, but a real member of society, waiting my turn just like the adults, and then choosing my seat, the same crappy quality as all the other seats.
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Memoir/book review: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Emerson’s idealism encounters Camus’ reckoning with the absurdity of human suffering.
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Memoir: a holiday tradition I no longer do
At the risk of sounding racist, maybe it’s the German roots– the reason for the strong musical culture of Elmhurst, Illinois. The Germans who settled there in the 1860s,–Messers Wolf, Glos, Schumacher and Heidemann–loved their Bach, Brahams, and Beethoven. They along with the kapellmeisters at the German language seminary (the future Elmhurst University) may have…
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Memoir: Cold War (2005)
Our first concern is to erect shelter, and Bob is our captain, we his obedient crew.
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