Wednesday, November 9, 2022

shadow existence


shadows of a plane tree and of a lamp - after two days of rain, the sun was out again today.  Being on campus when one's on leave - and I'll be there three days this week! - is like having some kind of shadow existence: present but not quite present, a phenomenon made even weirder when one's sitting in one's office attending an English department meeting that's still, for whatever unarticulated reason, being held on Zoom.  Not that I felt shadowy when meeting with students ... but even so, there's an element of lurking ...

 

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