“Everybody is like an archaeological site…each individual is possessed of very complex ‘subjectivity’ that is made of archaic moments of adaptation. When confronted by the circumstances of life, you resort – at random, very primitively and very automatically – to these ‘solutions’…” “Memory is just an impulse to dramatize a certain archaic disposition. Thus, you […]

I think I over-bond with coffeeshop baristas. I keep it well-hidden, of course. Outwardly, I have impeccable boundaries. I never do any weird oversharing. I like to think I am a commensurate and equilateral sharer of the highest order, my repartee almost painfully appropriate. But it’s all an act. Deep down inside, I’m all over […]

One day last year, I was sitting outside at my neighborhood coffee shop, and three different friends all came up to me, one after the other, and told me they were having hard weeks. It was uncanny. I mean, that’s weird, right? One was Bill, an indestructible heroin addict with the erect posture of an […]