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Month: January 2020

The Yellow Birds

January 22, 2020 Christopher Clancy

Some works dazzle you from one moment to the next while some works quietly sink in, infiltrating the reader’s psyche without their noticing.

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Posted in: On Background Filed under: Iraq, Kevin Powers, University of Texas at Austin

Let There Be Light

January 16, 2020 Christopher Clancy

What I most remember about Let There Be Light is the African American soldier who can’t stop crying, due to what he describes as “nostalgia.”

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Posted in: On Background Filed under: Caleb Carr, John Huston, nostalgia, PTSD

Traffic

January 8, 2020 Christopher Clancy

Looking into drivers’ faces becomes for me a handy reminder of the essential humanness of humanity: we are many, we are trying, we are struggling, we are on our way.

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Posted in: Ephemera Filed under: Ralph Waldo Emerson, traffic

Fear of Heights

January 2, 2020 Christopher Clancy

Had a bit of a panic attack on the day before Christmas, brought on by my acrophobia.

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Posted in: Ephemera Filed under: acrophobia, Edward R. Murrow, Newseum

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