Red Threads
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From the transcript:
–Should I start now? Or perhaps I should start by saying this is completely unnecessary—what? Oh, yes, start with my name. I am Zachary George Filmore and I am the director of.. what now? Oh, yes, of course,...
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From The New York Times Magazine:
The following is an excerpt from one of the notebooks included in the package left at the Times Paris office. We have been unable to verify its contents and while we have no doubt as to the veracity of the...
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From The New York Times:
This is part 2 of our series regarding a package left at our Paris bureau, which contained a lengthy letter and several notebooks and a flash drive. It...
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From The New York Times:
Paris–Two days ago a package was discovered outside the door of the office at the Times Paris bureau chief. Inside this package was a letter, several notebooks, and a small flash drive, the contents of...
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–Yes. Yes yes, said Olivia. Yes.
–I know that ending, I said.
–What?
–Nothing, bad joke. What are you affirming, I said.
–I figured it out.
–Figured it out?
–The code, she said, jumping off the...
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The snow showers came thru again and Olivia and I built the fire in the stove up and pulled in enough wood for several days. I continued to try and figure out what exactly had been...
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I felt the snow coming over the top of my shoes as Olivia and I moved from the field into a thick stand of trees beside the tracks. The blowing snow had obscured us from the...
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Luckily, MacLow had made sure my visa for Russia was in order before my flight left Beijing. Still I stood in line at Shevmetover II for almost two hours waiting to be herded...
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We flew to Beijing in an official government jet with Deng and his entourage. MacLow gave Deng the paper with the woman’s name and number and told him of what had occurred,...
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From the train station in Berlin I caught a taxi to the airport, and upon arrival picked up my ticket to Shanghai and made a straight path directly thru passport control, where the...
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The train arrived at Hauptbahnhof, the main station, as the sun began to ascend and all of Munich was bathed in a blue light which saturated the deserted streets and infused the...
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The next morning I awoke before any of the twenty or so bodies crashed on the floor of my suite. Apparently I’d hosted a post-reading gathering for Jonas and his friends and...
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On arrival in Warsaw I was met by my contact, Jonas Gomaulk, who escorted me out to a black Mercedes S-class. Opening the rear door was his driver. Once we were settled in we began...
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The airbus landing in Dubrovnik was a bouncy affair. As Vladimir, the Russian businessman seated next to me, described it, jumpy.
–Call me Dimitri, he said, pulling his...
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I took the 6 train to Union Square and walking down 4thAvenue had the feeling that one or two of the hundreds of people on the sidewalk knew where I was going and were in fact...
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Once I convinced the police officer that I didn’t need an ambulance, I went back to work and told my boss I was taking the rest of the day as a personal day. Given...
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No, no. Interview, no, I’ve never before given an interview to a journalist. In my profession, an interview would be greatly frowned upon, discouraged, if not fatal to one’s career at most levels. But I have been strongly...
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“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if...
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PART I
“The problem with perception is how we see it.”
Anu N’Known, Man, Or Is It?
Chapter 1
One day, my friend C.S. Harry Lewis quit his job and came home to find his house on...
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“When bulwarks & barriers ring you in,
And duty to rule befalls empty
men,
Who see only subjects & bloodless machines,
And means to tyrannical ends;
“When your sallow, sour, sorrowful...
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Am I today exempt from mortal snare,
That for all past has bit the heels of men?
Do I with fleshy, carnal kin compare,
Or do I live eternal through this pen?
With voice borne of a solitary mind,
The thoughts of my own past...
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A man lay downtrodden, blackened & scorned,
Prostrate at the empire wall;
He poured himself out, like meal to the mill,
And the universe, cold, watched him fall.
He blanched at dissenters, soldiers, and chiefs,...
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ONE: I write, therefore I am writing.
TWO:And now I am writing about writing.
THREE:The process of writing partakes so much of intuitive processes, and of drilling into substrata, into aquifers of half-...
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