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I wondered how long it was going to take for me to break the basic rule of writing in this journal every Saturday, and post an in-between entry. As I said before, it's OK to write more often than once a week. What can't be done is to skip a Saturday. In my imagination, if I do that, the ghosts of Anaïs Nin, and Samuel Pepys, and Amiel, and Jonathan ( Read more... )

Dear Anton Pavlovitch,

I was fifteen when I heard a radio adaptation of The Swan Song and thought it was very beautiful. Very moving and delicate. There were actors in my family and even at that age I was familiar enough with their environment to see how truthful was the figure of the aged actor who wakes up in the middle of the night alone in the ( Read more... )

Dear Lisa,

When I created A Journal to Lisa I set a rule to write in it every Saturday. If I felt like writing more often than that, fine. But at least once a week, on Saturdays, there must be an entry. That way the journal woudn't follow in the footsteps of it's predecessor, Leo for a While, created in 2001 under the username waitsfortherain,that sometimes wasn ( Read more... )

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Dear Lisa,

I must have been around twelve when my mother took me to see a blockbuster called How the West Was Won. It had taken longer than usual to be released in Brazil because of the technical problems involved in converting the original, produced in a bizarre process called Cinerama that has long been forgotten by the industry, to the ( Read more... )