"Why spend so much time recounting these more or less pointless anecdotes? When they do seem at all meaningful to me I instantly blame myself for choosing them (putting them together, fabricating them maybe) precisely in order to give them a meaning . . .
"I'm caught in a bind: either I'm elucidating prefabricated meanings, or, on the other hand, exploiting the gratuitousness of a purely random pointillism (illusory into the bargain) as I grope my way forward at the mercy of obvious or absurd associations."
- Robbe-Grillet, Ghosts in the Mirror
The Temple's new shave ice truck
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Lilith and I followed a shave ice truck and trailer into the cemetery this
morning. Five Sisters, it said on the back of the trailer, above a wooden
door....
2 days ago
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