What has been ‘extreme’ in my life (so far)? – Why do I have
a minor obsession with the ‘cutting edge’? Extremity and solitude. My
experiments with razor blades, 1999. ‘Self-harming.’
A young Asian woman has just shot by on a strange V-shaped
scooter (the platform on which she stands consists of two boards which join at
the prow). She is intent and looks a little worried. She is wearing a sun hat
and shades, and carries a small light green hand-bag. It is 8:40.
Grey skies, 13e arrondissement, language school Inlingua.
This summer, Straits: Hormuz, Taiwan.
Trying to read Le
Chiendent in Milan station, late at night. – Lille. – F.Q., the young woman
I had met teaching. – Her freshness. Her
cool, clear handwriting. The postcards of Paris she sent to console me for my
‘exil’.
Eduard van Beinum, Haffner Symphony – blisteringly intense! His Debussy
Nocturnes too.
