Personal Archaeology

The entry about Gregory (Nobody at Home, 8 October 2008) set me thinking about a dead person’s continuing presence in the land of the living. Here, memories are not enough.…

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What Price Love?

This Egyptian beauty is currently languishing at the bottom of a bookcase at a local auction. The catalogue carries no information about her origins, nor is there any estimation of…

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Gone

My friend, the experimental musician Michel Waisvisz died on Wednesday evening.Our time together began with a death and ended with a death. When my father was dying of cancer 25…

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Nan Hoover

I heard last night that my friend, the artist Nan Hoover had died. I met her in the '70s. Someone had given me her number in Amsterdam. I phoned, and…

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