DEAR DIARY

1.4.2025 (back in blackwell's) To the man reading a book on why empires fall who keeps looking up and making eye contact

So why DO empires fall?

Later:

She was haunted by an incident years ago when, as a young woman, she had seen a normal size man a long ways away but mistakenly believed him to be a very small man up close.

1.2.2024 New College Chapel (seated before rows of figures)

I worry that I might be a smudged trace of an ill-defined present haunting a rich and tangible past.