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Dennis O’Toole

April 2023

Freud, Alec Guinness, John Le Carré and retaining a sense of play
Freud, from “Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming”:
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Woman 1
"...she seemed to have been briefly cleaved from the princess telephone on which one French-manicured hand has been resting since 2006."
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March 2023

Get in my face, Daddy, and I'll mess it up
Title courtesy of Dusty "The American Dream" Rhodes. Text by Gordon S. Wood
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Too much college
A household of three at the U of C
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February 2023

The Driving Force of History and of Velodrome Racing
Thymos, megalothymia, and insanely hard bike rides for fun
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November 2022

Write As If Your Uncles Are Dead
Written April 1, 2016
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Teach Me How to Huggy
Written March 18, 2015
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Notes on Crickets
Written August 17, 2020
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Greensleeves
Written the evening of February 21, 2021
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The Atlantic Constantly
Written March 25, 2021.
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September 2022

you are sinful, Part 2: the Measure of a Moral System
Written April 23, 2021
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