December 2010
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“You know that thing
that drunk people do
where they’re not quite walking
not...”
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One over the other.
You should’ve known when it all got started. I’m a wind-up toy. I’ll grind my gears and shamble straight. All I have is a tin key. And a head full of tumblers to align.
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Postcards
I’m thinking about you. What else can I say? The palm trees on the reverse are a delusion; so is the pink sand. What we have are the usual fractured coke bottles and the smell of backed-up drains, too sweet, like a mango on the verge of rot, which we have also. The air clear sweat, mosquitoes & their tracks; birds & elusive.
Time comes in waves here, a sickness, one day after the...
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The Rosenhan Experiment
The Rosenhan Experiment was a famous experiment into the validity of psychiatric diagnosis conducted by psychologist David Rosenhan in 1973. It was published in the journal Science under the title “On being sane in insane places.” The study is considered an important and influential criticism of psychiatric diagnosis.
Rosenhan’s study was done in two parts. The first part...
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Mamihlapinatapai
“A word from the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego, listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the “most succinct word”, and is considered one of the hardest words to translate. It describes ‘a look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that they both desire but which neither one wants to start’.”
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“I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably...”
– William Carlos Williams
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It’s like talking to a glass wall. You’re not listening and I can see right through you.
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