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... went to a play last night   not too unusual   this past month   The Cherry Orchard   Ignorance   Our Town     will probably go to three more this upcoming month   try to go without expectation   been often disappointed   take the attitude  "not looking forward to this, really don't want to go but it's good to get out and do my duty, be responsible and see things" ...  ... this last one Love/Stories (or, But You Will Get Used To It)   Playwright Itamar Moses looks behind the curtain of contemporary romance in Love/Stories     yes felt like a lot about grief     a pedagogical lesson on theater [meta]drama[post-modern]conventions  intellect/emotion ... reading Red Doc > the next night & found this in Margaret Christakos: Slay it Again, Anne which captured the experience  Carson, through all of her work, writes about love as the atomic leveler of the self. Love is shit that smears us in its radiant nakedness; it can’t really be survived. Yet,