on Apple News, scanning, scrolling, dumbing out while Victoria cleaned the house and I tried to think of how Handke would have said something interesting about that, if not brilliant. My cold is receding, good night's sleep last night with bed is almost vertical back up position. Advil cold and sinus at 9 am, pseudephrine to the rescue thanks to 4 am delivery from amazon.
The cold hit me a week ago tomorrow when I parked at the flixbrew lot and now I realize it must have been from lunching at the Flying Star earlier that day. Big crowd of people, lots of germs, food and fingers, all the contextual carriers and instigators of immune system overload. We've almost spent the whole week in the house. Went out to Wal mart one day. My energy has been really low all week. Best today so far. Day off tomorrow, maybe the art museum to see the big photos that Kith mentioned last sunday. She was very pleased with her neckace of fetishes. Wish we remembered where we bought those.
Today Bela commissioned a quinciañera cake from Victoria. She imagines we will have some sort of party to sing the song and send the video to Emma. Maybe we will get a mariachi group on a video if we go to Quartes on Sunday when they play there.
Dissertation idea for someone: study the journals of two or three writers. Pessoa and Handke? empty idea
"Looking out the window, an experience of beauty, yet unable (and unwilling) to say what is so wbeautiful out there and why: beauty as a removal of limits, an experience of unexpected openness" 207
"The only feeling that really proves one is alive: the feeling of unio mystica 212
"the deadly mechanics of opinions boy, perfect description of apple news, all news
now at the last section, 1977 how does he decide to end this journal? did he? or just carved out one volume for publication ,
"my daily panic-fantasies 217 the furnace is still running, the roof does not (yet) leak
1977 minus 1942 he is only, only! 35 years old wow
"Talk" has been so defamed . . . hardly anyone takes it seriously any more
he mentions as a great writer someone I've never heard of ---Doderer
After page 243, two completely blank pages, then another at back with the bar scan code and Made in the USA Coppell, TX 28 December 2025 Is Coppell near Austin? nope, in Dallas
Ok---last Saturday at Star I ate that Spanish omelette and the huge chocolate cake. Later in the week lots of animal foods, chicken, salmon, eggs, cheeses (pizza)---so this terrible week of severe cold has been an inflammation caused by sudden, extreme animal products and unrelenting cacao and dark chocolate over the last two to four months? doctor g has spoken---now to put the question to chat or grok et al
not clear why Handke ends the published journal
glad for it to end as good as it is, still it makes me try too hard to imitate it
Yes, AI informs about the existential crisis within it and mentions a later journal, the story of the pencil--
ok, will not paste in here the ai details about his life during the journal, mild heart attack, sweet and sour love affair after collapse of marriage, daughter with him, anxiety, fear of death, etc since we can find that in google search easily enough---forever ----
Now back onward into the novel that seems so astonishing -- Slow Homecoming, first volume out in 1979, Weight published in 1977 Nothing in 1978, in German, That year Left-Handed Woman came out in English, had come out in German in 1976.
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