A life update of the second half of 2021.
Category: Autobiographical Sequence
The long, long walk back home
[1700 words] Autobiographical sequence [1 - Earliest Memories][2 - The Birth of Venus][3 - Playground Dynamics][4 - The Long, Long Walk Back Home][5 - The Great Paralysis][6 - My Teacher] If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boy and his dog and his friends. And a summer that never ends. And if you …
Playground dynamics
[1500 words] [Part 3 of the Autobiographical Sequence] [1 - Earliest Memories][2 - Birth of Venus][3 - Playground Dynamics] Scene 1 I am in the southern playground of Hawthorne Elementary school -- an open, cement-paved square. There's a group of kids playing together by the monkey bars. I'm off to one side. My thoughts swing …
The Birth of Venus: A Eulogy to Youth
[5500 words] Autobiographical sequence [1 - Earliest Memories][2 - The Birth of Venus - A Eulogy to Youth][3 - Playground Dynamics] Said the demi-divinity Disenchantment to the boy Bao-yu: "The reason I like you so much is because you are full of lust. You are the most lustful person I have ever known in the …
Earliest Memories – Introduction to a Method of Introspection
[2300 words] Autobiographical Sequence [1 - Earliest Memories][2 - The Birth of Venus - A Eulogy to Youth][3 - Playground Dynamics][4 - The long walk back home] Let's put it this way. Life is a sequence of answers to the question "What's going on?" We look around through our senses until we do something -- …
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David Leon 