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The Expatriot : No. 2 |
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February 1995France and Iowa Since it strains common sense for me to have made a move to Europe, with the background program of finding gainful employment, I find a way to soothe my tested logic by inventing justifications for my sojourn that are sensual and poetic, rather than of the head. I recount the ways in which Iowa and France share common bonds, most of which are metaphoric, rather than pragmatic, in nature. I do this not in an effort to “feel at home” surely, for not “to feel at home” is one of the main reasons I have come; but rather to shore up the rickety structure of my thinking, and to feel like there is some perhaps obscure philosophic sense to it. I am certain that this move makes some sense, but not necessarily for the reasons that I express here. There is little doubt in my mind that these connections are more telling to me than they are to the general reader, who will maybe nonetheless find them diverting, at least. ... Read more by downloading the file. Notes Printed in an edition of 100 on a 300 d.p.i. PostScript laser printer; reprinted as needed in smaller editions. |
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