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Berlin notes cont’d
2/11-2/16. The morning routine is coffee and croissants in the hotel lobby, then the U-bahn from Alexanderplatz to Potsdamer Platz. Pleasant to not know the language, to be among other people’s conversations but unable to absorb them. Everywhere the ground looks unforgiving. Hard, thick ice. Black gravel in the slushy parts. At Potsdamer Platz a [...]
Berlin notes — getting there
Wed. 2/10. We ended up closing down the airport bar. It was only 8:00 pm, but the terminal at JFK was empty, except for the people who worked there and a few other would-be travelers. The waitress explained they weren’t getting any new customers and they’d be pulling down the grates soon. She suggested we order [...]
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“Luxury condominiums for fish”
Reporting from Slaughter Beach, Delaware, Ian Urbina has an article in today’s New York Times about the offshoring of the MTA’s Redbird trains to create artificial reefs, a combination of the subway and the natural world that I find fascinating. In the last several years, the reefs have drawn swift open-ocean fish, like tuna and [...]
Pow!Pow! English
Long ago I was subjected to French in Action videos, and then there was a brief post-college stint of teaching ESL to adults. I showed up one day to discover a student had written on the blackboard, “Teacher why is you always late?” Anyway, I am currently taking an incredible amount of pleasure in “Pow!Pow! [...]
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“Most of the people laughing on that box died long ago.”