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"And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be? ... You'd be nowhere. Why, you're only a sort of thing in his dream! If that there King was to wake you'd go out -- bang! -- just like a candle!"

"Hush! You'll be waking him, I'm afraid, if you make so much noise."

"Well it's no use your talking about waking him when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real."

Tuesday, March 28, 2006



Fog in the trees and all is the color of fog and shadow, even the birds. I hear the chimes on the porch wrangling. See them? In the photo it is sunset, view of my front porch door. Clearly I need windex. I don't know if we'll see sun today. Yesterday rain, and I lost a glove.

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"You know how dinky a waterhose looks when it's filling up a pool? And the water isn't going up at all. But I'll bet my water bill is."

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postcard: Knox

~~The Winter 2006 issue of The Common Room is up, featuring literary criticism by Knox students Christopher Astwood, Lindsay Braddy, and Kate Garklavs.

~~Seven Knox students, Howard Friedman, Kate Garklavs, B.J. Hollars, Sarah Kilch, Mary Kiolbasa, Bethany Reece and Andy Scott, along with students from Sarah Lawrence College, will read from their own works of fiction and poetry at 7 p.m., Saturday, April 1, at Pookies Coffeehouse, 72 S. Cherry St. in Galesburg. A group of Knox students, Sylvie Davidson, Al Keefe, Adam Krause, JoAnna Novak, Brendan Todt and Sarah Wylder, and a group of Sarah Lawrence students gave a joint reading on March 2 at the Sarah Lawrence campus in Bronxville, New York, as part of a program called the Knox-Sarah Lawrence Exchange.

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And all I've managed to do today is stamp out tiny annoying fires.

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"and what is the use of a book...without pictures or conversations?"


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