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Bat’s Squeak

Posted on March 7, 2013, 9:05 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Close Up, Theme Songs.

I knew now that I had a susceptibility. I might never act on it, but I had it. What I did not have, it soon emerged, was a job.

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An Empty Room, Green Trolleys, and Brubeck

Posted on April 8, 2011, 11:34 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Close Up, Theme Songs.

However, for sheer guillotine-like intensity and definitiveness of severance, nothing in our society, short of divorces and funerals, begins to compare to the moment when parents leave kids off at college for the first time.

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Bat’s Squeak

An Empty Room, Green Trolleys, and Brubeck

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