The Foggy Eye

Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Notes on Jung's The Undiscovered Self

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  “One: The Plight of the Individual in Modern Societies” Instead of a society of responsible individuals, we have the State. “Two: Religion...
Sunday, January 4, 2026

Notable Reads from 2025

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Ecstasy and Terror , by Daniel Mendelsohn Meister Eckhart: Selections form His Essential Writings , edited by Emilie Griffin The Surrender ,...
Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Notable Reads from 2024

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In 2024, as in 2023, I was happy to let the literary enthusiasms of others become my own. So a continued emphasis on contemporary French lit...
Tuesday, July 23, 2024

The Other Ten Best Books of the 21st Century

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The New York Times recently featured an article counting down the 100 best best books of the century so far . They generated this list by s...
Saturday, December 9, 2023

Notable Reads from 2023

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Resuming an interrupted tradition: the year's highlights, listed alphabetically, by author. With a pride of place given to 2023's re...
Tuesday, October 17, 2023

La Femme

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She's at his window, smoking. Her hair up. Wearing a simple dress, green, tight-fitting, showing a figure that would be the envy of many...
Thursday, August 24, 2023

Together

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Together we came to the edge of the city, walked its streets, its avenues, carrying in our different ways the flame of life. We were learnin...
Wednesday, August 9, 2023

Tree and Spider

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A few days after she left I ordered a tree planted in the barren space in front of my stoop. The city soon put there what its tag called a ...
Friday, June 2, 2023

Mockingbird

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Time a blur but let's call it A couple weeks after you left A n orthern m ockingbird took up residence Outside t he window where you use...
Saturday, April 15, 2023

The Django

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Sitting again with you at the Django, waiting for Lucy and Grant to take the stage – our doppelgänger couple – you (as from Day One the one ...
Friday, April 7, 2023

The Universe Gives You What You Need

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Sitting on the stoop last night around midnight, a warm night, or it had been, the wind now starting to blow, and a white BMW parked in fron...
Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Carnage

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You take my hand, lead me To the bedroom, and soon We are covered in blood.   Showering later you say Something kind about my face And I thi...
Thursday, February 16, 2023

"Absolutely Not."

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A couple of days ago – Valentine's Day – walking east on 123rd I passed a man on the phone with his daughter. He had her on speaker, or ...
Friday, February 10, 2023

Ten Things I'll Never Do Again

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1) Watch The Bachelor , obviously. After finishing our Blue Apron (having argued again about how long to cook the chicken). You secretly fil...
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