Muscovite

An excerpt from “The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time”

During the years I was writing this book, my mother began to lose her memory, or, as she often said, she started “getting stupid.” I traveled frequently to London at this time, and on one of these trips visited the house in Belsize Park in which Sigmund Freud spent the ...
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Muscovite

Loss Beyond Destruction

Charlottesville reveals the failures of loss

“Get out, get out,” the person screams, the space in between the bangs growing closer and closer together as the warning continued. The apartment building is on fire. My brother, my parents, and I are all home and luckily we are able to hear the warning. We gather some essential possessions ...
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Loss Beyond Destruction