somewhat muted--just a quiet, non structured day before the week of tutoting begins. No plans, as of yet--desperately need a hair cut, so that will probably happen this morning. Yesterday went to the Film Forum to see Hitchcock's Strangers On a Train. I had seen it once before probably about 50 years ago. Anb amazing movie---at this point there are probably about 10 movies at Film Forum that I could lose myself in--yet strangely enough the force that I felt from Strangers seems so strong, that I want to wait before I see another movie again. Which leaves what...? Well, a lot depends on my energy process--whether I feel strong enough to leave the neighborhood in the evening. On Thursday last I had my first dose of a new and stronger medication---there have been some effects, but nothing preventing me from normal functioning. Nevertheless, that plus the chemo pills could slow me down by the evening. If not....I think about going out to Bushwick to visit Cobra Club or the Starr Bar, or Molasses book store for that matter, but the concept of taking the L into Brooklyn (not really a long trip from the upper west side) sometimes seems too difficult. The few times I have been to Bushwick since the pandemic and the illness, there have been planned events that I can set myself too. So there you go.
What else...? Memories, of course, are with me constantly but not one that comes to me now that I feel I can write about. I have started to read a novel called Fire In the Blood, and the writing is really briliant. The author is Irene Nemirovsky, the French novelist of the thirties who was killed at Auchwitz during World War II. During the pandemic I read her earlier novel Suite Francaise, about wealthy french citizens leaving Paris as the Nazis approached. This novel is stylistically very different---written quite before Suite Francaise--a very gentle and reflective narrator at the heart of it. I have just read the first three chapters, but certainly I will continue today, at whatever bookstore or coffee place that I visit later. Maybe also a visit to Lincoln Center's Theater Library---just finished The Spanish Tragedy, authorship given to Thomas Kyd---now might be time to re read some Marlowe---I think Edward II is next. Good way of spending time in the afternoon. For the rest,,? Well we will see---maybe a post tomorrow will reveal all.
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