Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: August 2006

Jacob Lawrence, "The Life of Frederick Douglass No. 20" (1939) — Jacob Lawrence, The Life of Frederick Douglass No. 20. Frederick Douglass left America to lecture in Great Britain. Here he met some of the most progressive and liberal-minded men in the English speaking world. He made a great speech on Covent Garden Theatre on August 7, 1846, in which he told of the people he represented-how at that moment there were three million colored slaves in the United States. (1939)

Workbook: August, 2006

August 31, 2006: The hotel has a problem which has forced you to sleep outside.
August 30, 2006: "Dolores" means pain.
August 29, 2006: Now you're on a city bus.
August 28, 2006: She was terribly upset by her son's frequent cursing...
August 27, 2006: Her colleague has an advanced computer screen.
August 26, 2006: "I hate it when they sing 'mama' this and 'mama' that."
August 25, 2006: The office is more crowded than you remember.
August 24, 2006: The audience.
August 23, 2006: Negativity, meanness.
August 22, 2006: "I'm very balanced."
August 21, 2006: People are so easily hardened to violence.
August 20, 2006: Total inability to suss...
August 19, 2006: I dragged those two sweaters around for years...
August 18, 2006: Oh god, those phone calls.
August 17, 2006: The European assimilation of Tahiti with Eden...
August 16, 2006: Strange person.
August 15, 2006: Worry.
August 14, 2006: Whistle, from behind.
August 13, 2006: You'd find him sleeping in the common room with his eyes open, unblinking.
August 12, 2006: Betrayed, by this body.
August 11, 2006: Holds a baking rack to her face.
August 10, 2006: Hand wax.
August 9, 2006: Think about the impressive things which humans accomplish.
August 8, 2006: Comes to your house, opens your blender, peeks inside.
August 7, 2006: Barking dogs.
August 6, 2006: How free I felt, leaving that crummy clique.
August 5, 2006: "I'll give you a blowjob."
August 4, 2006: The end of something which has given you pleasure.
August 3, 2006: Stuffed bear, almost as large as me...
August 2, 2006: We fired down on the beach from inside thick walls of concrete.
August 1, 2006: The Junk Drawer.