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...walked to the beach on Sunday morning. The snow made a wide lateral strip at the top, and where it stopped, the sand, brown and wet, continued to the lip of the ocean. I suppose the tide washing ashore made that portion of the sand too warm and moist to sustain the covering of snow, so half the beach was snow and the other half sand...
...spoon is always upsetting, no matter how often one looks at it, because we tend to keep certain textures and functions separate in our minds. Snow on a beach is not upsetting in the same way, but it startles the imagination. Where a child built a castle in the sand, he might make a snowman in winter. Or he could build a fort, two forts, two forts of perishable substances. Two beachheads...
...mind drifts in this direction because, no matter that I know there is no reason for bringing the snow and the sand together, still, one is always trying to connect disparate things. How should one drink tea out of an animal? What coherent whole can I make of snow on a beach...
Despite these problems, much of Woyzeck is striking and visually transfixing. A scene at the circus has a Barker (D'metruius Conley-Williams) preaching of double-natures, un-idealized reason and the sand dust and slime of man. A drunkard's monologue of earthly evil and the futile existence of man blends the tragic and the absurd. A dance-hall dream of Marie and a Drum Major, complete with droning music, torments Woyzeck and his remembrances...
What a beast! The pumped-up U.S. dollar has been kicking sand in the face of the yen and the mark. Last week the greenback climbed past 123 Japanese yen, a four-year high, and traded 1.65 against the German mark, a 2 1/2-year peak. Barely two years ago the U.S. currency traded at its postwar low. Europe and Japan love a strong dollar, since it lowers the price of their exports, which can stimulate more sales for their struggling economies. But cheaper Toyotas aren't good for everyone--for instance, General Motors and Chrysler reported weak sales last week...