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reflected stage — this cast of characters, moving southward, headed in different directions — transitions. 103rd to 96th, “next stop 86th,” to walk southward even more. my character looked back at the viewers. resting and glancing eyes, cigarette in mouth, waiting patiently.
the protagonist headed southward again, hudson river line, it was like walking […]

indeed, abstract art never would have been invented, except as the result of the most obstinate and sensitive effort to go with art’s grain. abstract art is not something, as are certain modes of surrealism — though not all — that a literary or philosophical mind would have imaged a priori. in this sense, abstract […]