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Identity
The Man Between
Hunched over the typewriter, one eye on the clock, I’m eternal, and I’m sweating it out. Then space opens its fist, I’m neither in nor out, not who I imagine, yet imagined by my Self. The hum of things continues. I’m the kiss of life — if only for this moment, to this moment I’ll cling.
October 1977News From Hacker City: Some Considered Opinions On The Electric Bass
My esthetic: the electric bass is the full equal of any other instrument. Properly played, it can simultaneously provide both a solid rhythmic punch and a complex countermelody.
September 1977On Prediction
Any individual is totally self-responsible. No matter what the existing probabilities may be, the individual is not in any way bound by them, except as he chooses to perceive himself bound.
September 1977On Specialness (And Guidance Of All Kinds)
When my perceptions truly coincide with what’s happening, it’s because I’m willing to lose myself in the other person or experience. It’s feelings of specialness I have about myself that keep me from doing that.
September 1977Journal
The paradox of trying to educate yourself and then live within the environment your ideals have dictated is: try but don’t try.
July 1977The Vampire Of Menitz
The people of Menitz could never remember a time when there had not been a vampire. So of course it was hard for them to remember the details of the good old days.
July 1977This Season’s People
You want your reality just loose enough that you can do a little miracle now and then. But not so loose that it starts getting chancy and problematical for the kids and the folks out on the fringes. It has to be good and solid for everybody.
June 1977Poet Of The Ordinary: Paul Goodman Remembered
Book Review
I have made this essay personal because I find I cannot be objective about Paul Goodman. I have never fully understood what it is about the man that has so compelled me, what held in my mind the memory of those few days I saw him, what kept me searching through his works until I found access to them.
June 1977
