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Month: January 2020

On Background: The Yellow Birds

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

On Background: Let There Be Light

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

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

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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