Jacob Lawrence, The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture
No. 38. Napoleon's attempt to restore slavery in Haiti was unsuccessful, Dessalines, Chief of the
Blacks, defeated LeClerc. Black men, women, and children took up arms to preserve their freedom,
November 1802. (1938)
Workbook: November, 2003
November 30, 2003 : Kafka as the great coward in face of the world.
November 29, 2003 : How the cat rubs her face on the end of my pen.
November 28, 2003 : "I kicked out my roommate..."
November 27, 2003 : "I still think of you as mine," she said.
November 26, 2003 : "My therapist says it's healthy to fantasize during sex."
November 25, 2003 : North Carolina Nouveau Riches.
November 24, 2003 : The gentle undulation of the swells...
November 23, 2003 : Blackmail.
November 22, 2003 : "I'm not sure I even like sex..."
November 21, 2003 : Death is only dream.
November 20, 2003 : Ideology as filter.
November 19, 2003 : The flowers she brought me...
November 18, 2003 : She has a unique ability to invest the most mundane things with all the wonder of childhood, as if seeing for the first time through brand-new eyes.
November 17, 2003 : "This is so much fun!"
November 16, 2003 : Those kisses I remember with such sweet longing:
November 15, 2003 : The burn scar on my lip.
November 14, 2003 : Later we walked with arms around each other, or held hands.
November 13, 2003 : Gasoline stop on the interstate.
November 12, 2003 : And then the biggest little breakthrough in all this time.
November 11, 2003 : It's like someone recorded me speaking my most secret fantasies aloud...
November 10, 2003 : Looking up with soft doe eyes she said...
November 9, 2003 : Shufen.
November 8, 2003 : Small boy, dayschool.
November 7, 2003 : Afternoon sunlight on a pasture outside Hebo, Oregon.
November 6, 2003 : Like a little child, burying herself in me.
November 5, 2003 : She took me to see her friends play, the local blues boys...
November 4, 2003 : For two or three nanoseconds: lunchroom tables, voices, a blue and gray wash of everyday faces.
November 3, 2003 : If I had the skill I'd draw a magic circle around her...
November 2, 2003 : "You're like a constant slumber party."
November 1, 2003 : The way she pronounces the word "all"...
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