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Kettle in Winter
"The sweet smell of decaying paper appeals to me no longer. It is too closely associated in my mind with paranoiac customers and dead bluebottles…
Amit Shah
Mar 26
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How to Avoid Loneliness in 5 Easy Steps
“What does not change / is the will to change” ( ~ Charles Olson, “The Kingfishers”)
Amit Shah
Mar 5
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Conformations of Grief
“Memory . . . is the diary we all carry about with us” (~ Oscar Wilde)
Amit Shah
Feb 22
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When I Fell from the Sky (Almost)
“We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live” (Joan Didion’s 2006 collection title)
Amit Shah
Jan 8
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Readers of Instincts of Beauty are saying
"Well, dear, life is a casting off. It's always that way." (Arthur Miller, "Death of a Salesman")
Amit Shah
Jan 3
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Musings on Memory
Amit Shah
Dec 18, 2021
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"Hungry man, reach for the book: It is a weapon"
Bertolt Brecht (Note from Amit: I cannot attribute the quote to a larger essay but it has been used in pamphlets and leaflets all over the world.)
Amit Shah
Nov 28, 2021
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Divining the Past
“Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.” ~ Mary Karr
Amit Shah
Nov 15, 2021
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Register for Silence
Variant Modalities
Amit Shah
Oct 1, 2021
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The Homecoming
“ You remember too much, My mother said to me recently. Why hold onto all that? And I said, Where can I put it down?” ~ Anne Carson, “The Glass Essay…
Amit Shah
Aug 19, 2021
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Migrating Memory
“After a hundred years Nobody knows the place, — Agony, that enacted there, Motionless as peace. Weeds triumphant ranged, Strangers strolled and spelled…
Amit Shah
Aug 18, 2021
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Dusty Marble With Scratches
A Farewell
Amit Shah
Jun 4, 2021
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