First Layer: We have an aura. It’s said to hover above our head and around the edges of our body. Best bet: wear white and sit in a room with white walls. Ask a friend to look at your aura for you. We can’t see our own aura. We are inside it, like a dry cleaning bag....
“I think that pleasure is a very difficult behavior. It’s not as simple as that to enjoy one’s self. And I must say that’s my dream. I would like and hope I die of an overdose of pleasure of any kind.” —Michel Foucault A spy waited down...
“The drama in my plays, I think, is nearly always people trying to reach each other . . . It’s true they’re confined inside their own skins, or their own cubicles, but they must try to get out as much as — they must try to find a common ground on which they can meet ....
“Nature is a Haunted House— but Art—a House that tries to be haunted. ” —Emily Dickinson Case Notes: Patty Emerson Berglund Fictional Work: Freedom Author: Jonathan Franzen Patty came to me because of chronic recurring depression and intermittent alcoholic behavior...
“How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?” —Plato, The Republic My name is Charlotte Newton, but people call me Charlie. I live in Santa Rosa, California in 1943. You only wish you could go back and live...
