Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: January 2011

Jacob Lawrence, "The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture No. 29" (1938) — Jacob Lawrence, The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture No. 29. L'Ouverture made a triumphant march into San Domingo on the 2nd of January, 1801, at the head of 10,000 men, and hoisted the flag of the French Republic. Toussaint did not wish to break with the French, the largest group of Haitian inhabitants. The Blacks themselves spoke patois French. (1938)

Workbook: January, 2011

January 31, 2011: Weird period of calm and optimism with only some real justification...
January 30, 2011: The Unapproachable.
January 29, 2011: Haunted.
January 28, 2011: In love with mirrors.
January 27, 2011: I want to die...
January 26, 2011: So much alcohol with that bunch.
January 25, 2011: As the end approached she tried and tried to grow closer...
January 24, 2011: Pizza in Paris.
January 23, 2011: She often stressed that she found me socially awkward.
January 22, 2011: So much poetry over such tiny kingdoms.
January 21, 2011: "Your kisses are so different."
January 20, 2011: Lost.
January 19, 2011: "I don't act the same way in bed with others as with you."
January 18, 2011: Mark at Pergamon, January 4, 1980.
January 17, 2011: Don't make yourself hate her.
January 16, 2011: My education has been so slow.
January 15, 2011: The soldiers at first were nervous...
January 14, 2011: Her need for approval.
January 13, 2011: Terror over trifles.
January 12, 2011: Horrid horse out front the museum.
January 11, 2011: I saw her walking on the street.
January 10, 2011: "Emotional attachment".
January 9, 2011: There's a lot of alcohol in those notebooks.
January 8, 2011: I'm coming to believe that metabolism played a big part in our incompatibility.
January 7, 2011: They belong together.
January 6, 2011: Great aqueducts, tacky theaters.
January 5, 2011: I once stood up the most beautiful girl in the world.
January 4, 2011: Dinner in the rain in a 2500 year old doorway.
January 3, 2011: The Inseparable Alone Together Twins.
January 2, 2011: By the end I wanted so much to be apart.
January 1, 2011: Neither could tell directions.