Lobo Antunes

António Lobo Antunes died today at 83.  Born 1942. 

Caved and ordered new edition, 30 years, of Gass's The Tunnel.  He was born in 1924.  

sinus headache killing me this morning, felt like a new cold last night but that feeling as diminished

allergies?  

"This is one I I will never put in quotation marks.  157  End of chapter 1 Book Two in Handke.  He has survived his one day of madness in the suburb.  Still like him so much, speaks to me in so many ways. I guess I will give Gass a look but I remain skeptical about his big book.  As much as I did enjoy many books by Antunes, never as much as Handke's.  

We await Adriana's visit at 1 pm to see if she will be the one to take Va to swim once a week.  

Found I still have a medical appointment on March 25, so I will now keep that, get a new doctor here. 

Like learning about the petty prophet of Pontefontaine and all else in Bay.  His voice, his explorations of interior states, his personas for himself.  Personal  

First of all a new title for my book thrust itself upon me.  From "Prehistoric Forms" it was renamed "The Chimerical World."  167   of the Orinoco in the mountainous region of Guyana where my story continued to spin its spirals.  168   chimera  spirals  the writer storyteller at war with himself, expansive, free, contracted, anxious, obsessive,  he has used often before "felt balls of air swelling in my armpits."  the highest calling to be a storyteller 

Adrianna texted, not feeling well.